
Class- ^ "^?^S-^^^ 
Book ■ V^ 

OFFICIAL DONATION. 



DIGEST 

J. c ^ 



Sohool Laws 



OF TllK 



STATE OF FLORIDA, 



kXa, ■ 



WITH TlIK 



Forms, Regulations and Instructions of the 
Department of Education. 



COMPILED BY 

WILLIAM N. SHE ATS, 

8UPBRINTENPENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



TALLAHASSEE, FLA.: 
• Tallahassee AN Book and Job Print. 

1899. 



state Board of Education. 



(ex-officio.) 

Hon. W. D. BLOXHAM, Governor, President. 

Hon. JOHN L. CRAWFORD, Secretary of State. 

Hon. WILLIAM B. LAMAR, Attorney-General. 

Hon. J. B. WHITFIELD, State Treasurer. 

Hon. WILLIAM N. SHEATS, Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, Secretary. 



Constitution of Florida. 



ARTIOLE XII. 



BUUCATION. 

Section 1. The Legislature shall provide for a uniform syn- 
tern of public free schools, and shall provide for the Hberal 
maintenance of the same. 

Skc. 2. There shall be a Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, whose duties shall be prescribed by law, and whose term 
ot office .shall be four years and until the election and qualifi- 
cation of liis successor. 

Skc^^. The Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney-General, 
Stite Treasurer, and State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion shall constitute a body corporate, to be known as the 
Ntate Board of Education of Florida, of which the Governor 
shall he President, and the Superintendent of Public Instruc 
tion Secretary. This Board shall have power to remove any 
^subordinate school officer for cause, upon notice to the incum- 
bent; and shall have the management and investment of all 
State School Funds under such regulations as may be pre- 
scribed by law, and such supervision of schools of hicrher 
grades as the law shall provide. '^ 

Sec. 4. The State School Fund, the interest of which shall 
be exclusively applied to the support and maintenance of 
public free schools, shall be derived from the followino- 
sources: ° 

The proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter 
be granted to the State by the United States for public school 
purposes. 

Donations to the State when the purpose is not specified. 
Appropriations by the State. 
The proceeds of escheated property.* 

Twenty-five per cent, of the sales of public lands which are 
now or may hereafter be owned by the State. 

♦As. (led In 1894. 



Duty ot U^g- 
Islature. 



TiTTD of Slipt. 

Pub. lust. 



Pcrsounel of 
St;ite Roarrl o f 
Education. 



Power oi rc- 
moTal. 



Interest only 
to be applied. 



Sources of 
-•^tate School 
Fund. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Principal in- 
Tiolate. 



One Mill Tax. 



Basis ofappor- 
tioumenl of 
interest and 
One Mill Tax 
(as amended in 
1894). 



County School 
Tax. 



County School 
Fund ; whence 
derived and 
how disbursed 
(as amended 
in 1894 ). 



Provisions lor 
School Dis- 
tricts. 



School Trus- 
tees. 



District Tax. 



Town or city 
may be a 
School Dis- 
trict. 

Disbursena«jit 
of District 
FuBid. 



Skc. 5. The principal of the Stale School Fund shall remaii',-' 
sacred and inviolate. 

Sec. 6. A special tax of one mill on the dollar of all taxa- 
ble property in the State, in addition to the otliei means pro- 
vided, shall be levied and apportioned annual!}^ for the sup- 
port and maintenance of public free schools. 

Sec. 7. Provision shall be made by law for the apportion- 
ment and distribution of the interest on the State School Fund 
and all other means provided, including the special tax for the 
support and maintenance of public free schools, among the- 
se veral counties of the State in proportion to the average at- 
tendance upon schools in the said counties respectively."^^ 

Sec. 8. Each county shall be required to assess and collect 
annually for the support of public free schools therein, a tax 
of not less than three mills nor more than live mills on the 
dollar on all taxable ^^voperty in the same. 

Sec. 9. The County School Fund shall consist, in addition 
to the tax provided for in section eight of this Article, of the 
pi'oportion of the interest of the State School Fund and of 
the one mill State tax apportioned to the county; all capitation 
taxes collected within the county; and shall be disbursed by 
the County Board of Public Instruction solely for the main- 
tenance and support of public free schools. 

Sec. 10. The Legislature may provide for the division of 
any county or counties into convenient school districts; and 
for the election bi-ennially of three school trustees, who shall 
hold their office for two years, and who shall have the super- 
vision of all the schools within the district; and for the levy- 
ing and collection of a district school tax, for the exclusive use 
of public free schools, within the district, whenever a majority 
of the qualified electors thereof that pay a tax on real or per- 
sonal property shall vote in favor of such levy; Provided^. 
That any tax authorized by this section shall not exceed three 
mills on the dollar in any one year on the taxable property of 
the district. 

Sec. 11. Any incorporated town or city may constitute a 
School District. The fund raised by section ten may be ex- 
pended in the district where levied for building or repairing 
school houses, for the purpose of school libraries and text- 
books, for salaries of teachers, or for other educational pur- 
poses, so that the distribution among all the schools of the- 
district be equitable. 



*As amended in 1894. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Skc. I'J. White and colore'l (^hildrcin sliall not he taught in 
the sarnt! school, but impartial provision shall be made for 
both. 

Sk(;. I'-i. No law shall be enacted authoi-izing the diversion or 
the lending of any county or district school funds, or the ap- 
propriation of any))artof the permanent or available school 
fund to any other than school purposes; nor shall the same, or 
any part thereof, be appropriated to or used for the support of 
an}' sectarian sch'jol. 

Skc. 14. The Legislature at its first session shall provide for 
the establishment, maintenance and management of such Nor- 
mal Schools, not to exceed two, as the interests of public edu- 
cation may demand. 

Skc. 15. The compensation of all county school oihcers shall 
be paid from the school fund of their respective counties, and 
all other county officers receiving stated salaries shall be paid 
from the general funds of their respective counties. 



1899. 



Separate 
schools for ne- 
groes. 



Proliibitioii.s 
on jJrhool 
Kun«l. 



Normal 
Schools. 



Compensation 
of school ol- 
tic;er8. 



AirncLE IV. 

Skc. 25. The Superintendent of Public Listruction shall 
liave supervision of all matters pertaining to public instruction; 
the supervision of State buildings devoted to educational pur- 
poses, and perform such other duties as the Legislature may 
j>rovide by law. 

Skc. 27. * * [He] shall make a full report of his official ^^,,^.^ 
acts, of the receipts and expenditures of his office, and of the rti>ort 
requirements of the same, to the Governor at the beginning 
of each regular session of the Legislature, or whenever the 
Governor shall require it. Such * * [report] shall be laid 
before the Legislature by the Governor at the beginning of 
each regular session thereof. Either house of the Legislature 
may at any time call uj»on * * ['lii^J io*" information re- 
<](uired bj it. 



I'owers and 
duties of State 
Superintend- 
ent. 

See. 25, Art. 
IV., Const. 



SluiU make 



Al>l»i'. Sec. 27. 
Art. IV., Const. 



SOHOOL L/\\A/© 



OF THK 



STATE OF FLORIDA 



COMPILKD 



From the Revised Statutes, and the Acts of the 
Legislatures of 1893, 1895, 1897 and 1899. 



GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 

Section 1. There shall be established and raaintained a 
uniform system of public instruction free to all the youth re- 
siding in the State between the ages of six (6) and twenty- 
one (21) years, as far as the funds will admit, as hereinafter 
provided. 

Sko. 2. The officer.s of the Department of Public Instruction 
shall be a State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a State 
Board of Education, a Board of Public Instruction for each 
county, a Superintendent of Public Instruction for each county, 
local School Supervisors and Treasurers. 

Sec. 3, All such officers who shall hold their othces by stat- 
ute shall conform to the regulations of the Department of 
Public Instruction. 

Sec. 4. They shall retain their offices during the faithful 
performance of their duties, but not to exceed ionr years at 
any time. 

Sec. 5. They shall be subject to removal for incompetency, 
neglect of duty, or any cause which would disqualify them for 
the positions if not incumbents. 

Sec. 6. No officer shall vote on a question lixing his own 
compensation. 

Sec. 7. A majority of any educational board shall consti- 
tute a quorum for the transaction of business. 



A uniform - 
System ot 
Public In- 
struction, 
Rev. Stat. 
Sec. 2'>.'-j. 



lb. See, -I-Zti. 



Subject to 
regulatioiiR, 
tXx Sep.. 229. 



Tenure of 
ofliee. 



For wliat re- 
movnbla 



Wlicn iK)t. to - 
vote. 
lblrt,Se(A. 23C'! 

Aquorum. « 
lb. Sec, '2S\. 



10 



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18 99. 

Designation of 
t-ounty suVj- 
(livisioas. 
Sec. l.Cliap. 
4678. 



School otticers 
to quaJify. 
Rev. Stat. Sec. 
23'2. 



To give bond 
with sureties. 



Liability lor 
loss. 



To turn over 
effects to suc- 
cessor, 
lb' Sec. 23:^. . 



Penal oflcase 
to mix races in 
Schools. (Sec. 
1, chap. 4:3."5). 



Penalty, 
lb. Sec. 2. 



Biflferccec-j set- 
tled by arbi- 
tration. Rev. 
Stat. ?ec. 26.5. 



Sko. 8. Each county shall constitute a school unit; all sub- 
divisions of a county for school purposes shall be designated 
as school districts; all school districts levying a school district 
tax shall hereafter be designated as special tax school districts, 
and ail schools receiving any district tax, as special tax schools. 

Sec. 9. Every school officer who shall be appointed under 
statutor}^ provision, is required: 

1st. Before entering upon the duties of his office, and within 
ten days after receiving notice of his appointment, to sub- 
scribe to an acce])tance of the appointment and to pledge that 
he will faithfully perform the duties of the position, and to 
forward the same with his postoffioe address to the State Su- 
perintendent of Public Instruction. 

'2d. Before receiving any school moneys or property of any 
kind, for safe keeping or disbursement, to give bond, with two 
good sureties, the bonds to be fixed and approved by the Board 
of Public Instruction for the county, the original to be filed 
in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and a certified 
copy to be held by the officer giving the security, to be pro- 
duced when required. 

3d. An}^ officer in charge of school moneys or property to 
be so disbursed, shall satisfy himself that the officer to whom 
he issues it has given bond as aforesaid, or be personally liable 
for any loss in consequence of such neglect. 

Sec. 10. Every officer shall turn over to his successor in 
office, on retiring, all books, papers, documents, funds, moneys 
and property of whatever kind, which he may have acquired, 
received and held by virtue of his office, and take full receipts 
for them of his successor. 

Sec. 11. It shall be a penal offense for any individual, body 
of individuals, corporation or association, to conduct within 
this State any school of any grade,public, private or parochial, 
wherein white persons and negroes shall be instructed or 
boarded within the same building, or taught in the same class, 
or at the same time by the same teacher. 

Sec. 12. Any person or persons violating the provisions of 
section 1 [section above] of this act, by patronizing or teach- 
ing in such school shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a 
sum not less than |!l50nor more than $500, or imprisoned in 
the county jail, for not less than three months nor more than 
six months for every such offense. 

Sec. 13. All matters of difference which may arise between 
school officers and teachers, or other persons, under the opera- 
tion of this act, shall be submitted to the decision of arbitra- 
tors. The proceedings and powers of arbitrators shall be as 
j)rovided by law for other arbitrations. 



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11 



POWERS AND DITTIES OF THE STATE BOARD OF 
EDUCATION. 

Skc. 14. The State Board of Education shall consist of the 
<4overnor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, the 
State Treasurer, and the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction. The Governor sliall be the President, the State 
Treasurer shall be the Treasurer, and the State Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction, the Secretary of said Board. Said 
Board is a body corporate, with full power to perform all cor- 
porate acts for educational purposes. 

Sec. If). The State Board of Education are directed and 
empowered: 

1st. To obtain possession ol and take the charge, oversight 
and management of all lands granted to or held by the Slate 
for educational puri)oses, and to fix the terjus of sale, rental or 
use of such lands, and to do whatever may be necessary to 
preserve them from trespass or injury, and for their improve- 
ment. 

2d. To have the direction and management, and to proviile 
for the safe keeping and expenditure of all the educational 
funds of the State; with due regard to the liighest interest of 
education. 

3d. To entertain and decide upon questions and appeals re- 
ferred to them by the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion on any matter of difference or dispute arising under the 
operations of this act, and to prescribe the manner of making 
appeals and conductin<i arbitrations. 

4th. To remove any subordinate officer in the department 
for incompetency, neglect of duty, or other cause which would 
disqualify a person for the appointment. 

5th. To keep in view the establishment of schools on a 
broad and liberal basis, the object of which shall be to impart 
instruction to youth in the profession of teaching, in the 
knowledge of the natural sciences, the theory and practice of 
agriculture, horticulture, raining, engineering and the mechanic 
arts, in the ancient and modern languages, in the higher range 
of mathematics, literature, and in usual and ornamental 
branches not taught in common schools. 

6th. To co-operate with the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction in the management of the Department; and in the 
general diffusion of knowledge in the State. 

Sbc. 16. The [State] Bonrd of Education shall invest moneys 
of the common school fund which it may now have, and which 



1899. 



Hou' constHu- 
tod. lb. 2;?4. 



.\ body corpo- 
raie. 



Powers and 
duties. lb 235. 



With regard to 
school hiuds. 



With regard to 
school funds. 



With regard lo 
disputes or ap- 
peals. 



Removal of 
subordinate oE- 



With regard to 
higher educa- 
tion. 



To CO operate 
with State 'Su- 
perintendent. 



To invest 
School Fun*. 
Tb. -JOT. 



12 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



In what may 
nvest. 



To till vacan- 
cies on County 
Boards. 
Abtot yec. 4, 
chap. 41 «8. 



Noriaal Kchool 
ioi- wljites. 



ITacwlty, bow 
elected. 
Rev. St;U. Sec , 
268, 



Normal School 
for negroes. 

lb., StrC.'2b9. 



from time to time may come to its hands, in bonds of tlie 
United States and of the sevt^ral States at the current market 
values of such bonds at the time of making such investments, 
and such Board may from time to time change investments 
held by it, and re-invest the proceeds arising from such change 
in securities authorized by law; Provided^ hoioever. That in 
no case shall any investment be made in any bonds on which 
the interest is not regularly paid, or as to the validity of which 
any suit may be pending. 

Sec. 17. All vacancies on said Board [County Boai-ds of 
Public Instruction] shall be filled for the unexpired' term by 
appointment by the State Board of Education on the nomina- 
tion of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 18. a Normal School for the training and instruction 
of white teachers is established at DeFuniak Springs, Walton 
county, under the direction and control of the State Board of 
Education. 

The State Board of Education shall elect a faculty, to con- 
sist of a principal and two assistant instructors, who shall 
have in charge the training and instruction of all students, sub- 
ject to the approval of the State Board of Education. 

Sec. 19. A Normal School for colored teachers is established 
at Tallahassee, Leon county, similar in all respects as prescribed 
above for the establishment of the Normal School for white 
teachers, and subject to the direction and control of the State 
Board of Education, 



Establishment. 
Sec l.chap. 
4334, May 29, 
18i)6. 



Detiffu 



Mannei- oi' »<> 
lecdng student 
for free tuition, 
etc. Cfiap. 
4668. Sec. 1. 



SOUTH FLORIDA MILITARY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INSTITUTE. 

Sec. 20, The South Florida Military and Educational Insti- 
tute is hereby established at Bartow, Polk county, Florida, 
under the direction and control of the State Board of Educa- 
tion, who shall elect such faculty as may be required to carry 
out the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 21. The design of this institution is to teach such 
branches of learning, including military tactics, as may be re- 
quired by the State Board of Education. 

Sec, 22. The Representatives from each county in connec- 
tion with the Senator representing said county shall be em- 
powered to name upon competitive examination and in such 
manner as the State Board of Education may prescribe, one 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



]'i 



Ktuflent for ea<*,h county who shall be resident in said coiintv 
to the said South Florida Military and Educational Institute 
who shall be entitled to receive the benefit of a full course 
of Instruction at said institute without charge for board, lodg- 
ing, tuition, use of text books, washing, fuel, lights and 
use of arms and equipments. Said student to be subject to 
such rules and regulations as may be established for the gov- 
ernment and direction of said institution. 

Sec, 23. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions 
of this act the sum of nine thousand dollars ($9,000) be and 
the same is hereby appropriated for each of the two ensuing 
years, commencing September 1, 1897, out of any monies in 
the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

INSTITUTE FOR BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB. 

Sec. 24. The members of the State Board of Education are 
the Trustees of the Institute hereinafter specified, under the 
name of the Board of Managers of the Florida Institute for 
the Blind, Deaf and Dumb. 

Sec. 25. Said Institute shall remain in its present location 
near St. Augustine, in St. Johns county, and shall be an asy- 
lum for the indigent blind and deaf and dumb in this State/ 

Sec. 26. Said Board of Managers shall provide for the edu- 
cation, care and maintenance at said asylum of all persons re- 
siding in this State, between the ages of six and twenty-one 
years, who may be blind, or deaf and dumb. 

Sec. 27. Any person entitled to admission into said Insti- 
tute, or the parent, guardian or next friend of such person, 
may apply to the Board of County Commissioners of the county 
of his residence, and the County Commissioners, if satisfied that 
the person is so entitled to such admission, shall issue a cer- 
tificate to that effect, upon which the applicant shall be re- 
ceived into the asylum. 

Sec. 28. Said Board of County Commissioners shall supply 
means of transportation of such persons to said asylum, and 
at the close of each session the Board of Managers shall sup- 
ply means of transportation for the inmates to their respective 
homes and return at the opening of the next succeeding ses- 
sion. The same to be paid for out of the general appropria- 
tion for the maintenance of said asylum; those who have the 
means will be required to pay the necessary expenses, tuition 
Excepted, of their children or wards. 

Sec. 29. Said Board of Managers shall provide for the in- 
mates of said Institute necessary bedding, clothing, food and 
medical attendance, and such other things as may be proper 
for the health and comfort of said inmates. 



1899. 



Appropriatiiju. 
lb..S<!C.'i. 



Board of Man- 
agers. 
K. S. Sec. -270. 



I;«t-»ti011. 

H..,27'.. 



Duty of Boa I'll 
of Mauagers, 
(As amended 
ill chap. 'ls*)i) 



County <'(>m- 
miss ion ers to 
issue certiflcate 
of admission. 
(As amende*] 
lb). 



Tran-porhi- 
lio.i. 



Wlio -shiiil pay. 
( As ameuded, 
lb). 



What Botifd of 
Mauai^ei-sshalt 
provide, 
liev. ^tat. 270. 



14 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 

■Employ teaeh- 
<aKs. lb., 276. 



liepoi-t. 

lb., 277. 



Ftatc Superin- 
teadent, juris- 
diction of. 
Kev. Stat.", Sec. 
X32. 
Duties, 
lb., Sec. 13:5. 



To print and 
distribute iaws, 
forms, etc. 



To call Con- 
veu tion.s. 



To hold Insti- 
■Sutes. 



To apportion 
.scfioo! niouevs. 



To make dw- 
«retionary ap- 
portionmeiitg,' 



To decide.'upoii 
api^eaU. 



Skc 30. Said Board of Managers shall also provide for the 
education of the inmates of said Institute, and shall employ 
euch teachers as may be competent to instruct the blind, and 
deaf and dumb, and tit them for aiding in earning a support, 
and in sharing the enjoyments of life. 

Src. 31. Said Board of Managers shall report to the Leg- 
islature at each session the condition and management of said 
Institute, the work done therein and the expenditures there- 
for. 

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUC- 
TION. 

Skc. 32. The State Superintendent o! Public Instruction 
shall have the oversight, charge and management of all mat- 
ters pertaining to public schools, school buildings and grounds. 

Sec. 33. It is his duty and he is hereby empowered : 

1st. To prepare and cause to be printed and distributed 
gratuitously to Boards of Public Instruction, and other officers 
and teachers as many copies of the school laws, and such 
forms, instruments, instructions, regulations and decisions as 
he may judge necessary for their use. 

2d. To call conventions of County Superintendents of Pub- 
lic Instruction, and other officers, for obtaining and imparting 
information on the practical workings of the school system, 
and the means of promoting its efficiency and usefulness. 

3d. To assemble teachers in Institutes and employ compe- 
tent instructors to impart information on improved methods 
of teaching and conducting schools and other relevant mat- 
ters. 

4:th. To apportion the intei'est on the common school fund 
and the fund raised by the one mill State tax authorized by 
Se^'tion 6 of Article XII, of the Constitution, among the sev- 
eral counties of the State in proportion to the average at- 
tendance upon schools in the said counties respectively of 
children residing therein between the ages of six (6) and 
twenty-one (21) years. 

5th. To make such apportionments as may in his judgment 
be right and just, when the census and returns on which the 
apportionments should be made are manifestly defective or 
have not been received by him. 

6th. To entertain and decide upon appeals and questions 
arising under this act, or refer such to the Board of Kducation 
lor decision. - 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



15 



7th. To prescribe Hules and liegulatious for the manage- 1899. 

nietit of the Depailrnent of Public Irislniction. 

Sth. Ilii shall have a seal for liis office, with which, in con- 
nection with his own signature, to authenticate copies of de- 
cisions. act« or documents, which copies so authenticated shall 
be of the same force as the originals. 

9th. lie shall reside at the seat of government of this Stale, 
and shall keep his office in a room in the Capitol. 

10th. He shall prepare the questions for county examina- 
tions and distribute same to County Superintendents; hold 
written examinations for and issue State Certiticates ; may 
grant Life Certiticates as provided by law; and may oi-der 
county examinations on other days than those prescribed by 
law. 

11th. He shall nominate to the State Board of Education 
for appointment persons to till all vacancies for unexpired 
terms on County School Boards [County J^oards of Public In- 
struction]. 

12th. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent to 
A'isit each Seminary at least once in eacfi year, and he shall 
annually make to the (Governor, to be by him laid before the 
Legislature at each regular session thereof, a full and detailed 
report of the doings of the respective Boards of Education, 
and of all their expenditures, and the moneys received for 
tuition, and the prospects, progress and usefulness of said Sem- 
inaries, including so much of the report of the Board of Vis- 
itors as he may deem advisable. 

13th. To file and preserve the same [certified copies of the 
monthly lists of persons who have paid their poll taxes] in his 
office as a part of the public records and furnish copies thereof 
when requested by citizens of this State. 

DUTIES AND POWERS OF COUNT T BOARDS OF 
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Sec. 34. P^ach Board of Public Instruction is constituted a 
body corporate by the name of "The Board of Public Instruc- 
tion for the County of , State of Florida," and 

in that name may acquire and hold real and personal property, 
receive bequests and donations, and perform other corporate 
acts for educational purposes. 

Sec. 35. Each Board shall, before proceeding to any other 
business, complete its own organization. Then the chaiiinan 
and secresary shall make and sign two copies of the proceed- prirnary'duty. 
ings of organization, and annex their affidavits to each that ^ ••-'^^• 
the same is a correct and true copy of the original. They 



To presi;ribe 
rej^Luaii ins. 

'I'o liave a seal. 
II)., Hoc. 134. 



To reside at 
Capital, 
lb., Sec. l:J5. 

'I'o prepare 

questions lor 

examinations, 

etc. 

Abbr. Sees. 8, 

9, 10, 20, Cliap. 

4192, June 8. 

1S93. 



To nominate 
County .-jcbool 
IJoards. 
Abbr. See. 4, 
Chap. 419:3. 



T<5 vi-ir Setni- 
naries. Sec. 
.•523, Kev. Stat.. 



'^eporl to tile 
Grovernor. 



inie poll list«. 
Abbr. Sec. 2, 
Chap. 4660. 



A corporate 
body. 

Rev. Stat.,S 
236. 



Organization a. 



16 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



'titles ve^ed 
ill. 



Pay. 

Sec. l.Cftap 

4,567. 



■Sccietary of. 



Treasurer of. 
)b. Sec. '240. 

Rev. Stat., 
Sec 242. 



To hold title?. 



May dispose of 
pioperty. 



Special tax 
district prop- 
erly. 



To locatt! 
schools. 



School age. 

Minimum 

term. 



To appoint .Su- 
X^ervisors. 



To se'ect 
school site". 



shall file one copy in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of the county, to be by him recorded in the record of 
deeds, and file the other copy in the office of the State Super- 
intendent of Publie Instruction. 

Sec. 36. The title to the school property of the school shall 
be vested in them and their successors in office, except in such 
sub-districts as provided for. 

Sec. 37. The members of the various County School Boards 
shall be paid from the county school fund for iheir services, 
two dollars per day, for each day's service, and ten cents per 
mile for every mile actually traveled in going to and from 
the county court house by the nearest practical route. 

Sec. 38. The County Superintendent of Public Tnstrii(3tion 
shall be Secretary of the Board. 

Sec. 39. The County Treasurers of the several counties shall 
be and the same are hereby constituted the treasurers of the 
school funds in their respective counties 

Sec. 40. Each Board of Public Instruction is directed — 

1st. To obtain possession of, accept and hold, under proper 
title, as a corporation, all property possessed, acquired or held 
by the county for educational purposes, and to manage and 
dispose of the same for the best interest of education; Pro- 
vided^ That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to pre- 
vent any sub-district [special tax school districts] from holding 
school property that it has, or may hereafter acquire, for 
school purposes, or prevent such districts from receiving their 
portion of money as set apart for school purposes. 

2d. To locate and maintain schools in every localitj'' in the 
county where they may be needed, to accommodate, as far as 
practicable, all the youth between the ages of six (6) and 
twenty-one (21) years, during not less than four months in 
each year. 

3d. To appoint one supervisor for ench school on the recom- 
mendation of the patrons, whose duty it shall be to supervise 
the work of the school and to. report to the County Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction monthly the result of his ob- 
servations. 

4th. Te select and provide a site for each school house of 
not less than one-half acre of ground in the rural districts, and 
as nearly that amount as practicable in the villages or cities; 
the situation to be dry, airy, healthful and pleasant, also rea- 
sonably central and convenient of access for all who should 
attend the school. 



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17 



5th. To do whatever is necessaiy with regard to purchasing 
or renting school sites and premises, coustnioting, repairing, 
furnishing, warming, ventilating, keeping in order or improv- 
ing the school houses, outbuildings, fences, land and movable 
property, procuring proper apparatus for the schools, grading 
and classifying the pupils, and providing separate schools for 
the different classes in such a manner as will secure the largest 
attendance of pupils, promote the harmony and advancement 
of the school, and establishing, when required by the patrons, 
schools of higher grades of instruction where the advancement 
and number of the pupils require them. 

6th. To employ teachers for every school in the county, and 
Ui contract with and pay the same for their services; Pro- 
inded, That schools shall not be located nearer than three 
miles to each other, unless for some local reason or necessity. 

7th. To audit and pay all accounts due by the Board of 
I'ublic Instruction. 

8th. To keep accurate accounts of all their official acts, pro- 
ceedings and decisions, of all moneys received, held or dis- 
bursed, of all property acquired or disposed of, "in a proper set 
of account books, and a record of the state and condition of 
each school, and to report the same to the State Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction when required. They shall also at 
the close of the scholastic year prepare an itemized report of 
all moneys by them received and disbursed. 

9th. To prepare and file with the Clerks of the Circuit Court 
of their counties respectively, by the first Monday in August, 
A. D. 1895, a detailed and itemized financial statement in 
writing, showing all suras of moneys received on account of 
county school funds for and during the year next preceding, 
and from whom received, and from what source derived, and 
all amounts paid out during such year, to whom and on what 
account paid. What funds, if any, are on hand, and what in- 
debtedness, if any, is outstanding. Such statement shall be 
certified by the Treasurer of the county school fund and at- 
tested by the County Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
and in all counties where a newspaper exists, the Board of 
Public Instruction shall cause said statement to be published; 
Provided, The cost of such publication shall not exceed ten 
dollars to be paid out of the county school fund; otherwise 
they shall have the same posted at the oourt-house and at three 
other public places in the county. 

10th. To prepare and file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court 
of their respective counties by the first Tuesday after the first 
Monday in September, A. D. 1895, and by the corresponding 
Tuesday in each and every month thereafter, an itemized 



1899. 



Goneral dis- 
creiiouary 
duties and 

pf.WffS. 



To e'^tablish 
High .-telioois. 



To employ 
teacUers. 

Three- m le 
limit. 

To audit ac- 
counts. 



To keep a com- 
plete record of 
otiic al acts. 



To report to 
St \ce Superii) 
tcndent. 



To file an item- 
ize I financial 
report am u- 
ally with 
coiinty olerk . 



To publish or 
post the sama. 
{Ser>. 2,0hap. 
4382). 



To flle monthly 
an itemized fi- 
nancial state- 
meMt with 
county clerk. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To piiblish or 
post the same, 
lb., Sec. 3. 



To adopt text 

books. 

See. 1, Chap. 

4680. 



To consult Co. 
8upt. and 
teacriers. 



Term of adop- 
tion. 



Sec. 2, Chap- 
ter 4680. 



Sec. 3, Chan- 
ter 4680. 



To prescribe a 
course of 
study. 



Ill ancial statement showing all sums of moneys received dur- 
ing the month next preceding on account of county school 
funds, and from whom received, and from what source de- 
rived, all appropriations made by such Board, and for what 
purpose made. All warrants drawn by such Board, in whose 
favor and for and on what account drawn, describing such 
warrant by date, number and amount. zVll such monthly 
financial statements shall be certified by the chairman of the 
Board of Public Instruction for the county and attested by 
the County Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the said 
Board shall without delay cause the same to be published in a 
newspaper of the county, when any such newspaper exists; 
Provided, The cost of such monthly publication shall not ex- 
ceed two dollars per month, otherwise they shall post the 
same at the court house and at three other public j^laces in the 
county. 

11th. To put in operation in the public free schools in their 
respective counties a uniform system of school books; but 
however, that the adoption of such system shall be gradual 
and not sooner made than the interests of the pupils and pat- 
rons may dictate; and Provided, That the entire adoption shall 
be consummated by July 1, 19'J1. 

12th. The selection of books to constitute such uniform 
system in each county shall be made by the County Board of 
Public Instruction of the county, who before deciding upon 
any book or books shall consult with the County Superintend- 
ent of public schools and at least three leading teachers of the 
county. Before any adoption shall be made at least sixty 
days' previous notice of the time and place such adoption will 
be considered published once a week for three successive 
weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation 
throughout the county, or in the absence of such newspaper 
to be posted in at least five different and conspicuous places 
in the county shall be given by the School Board; any adop- 
tion made hereunder shall last at least five years. The County 
Superintendent shall see that the books adopted are used by 
the pupils and the teachers shall not use any other books in 
teaching. 

13th. Nothing in this act shall have the effect to interfere 
with or impair any entire or partial adoption heretofore made 
and now existing in any county of the State. 

14th. To prescribe, in consultation with prominent teachers, 
a course of study for the schools of the county and grade 
them properly; and to require to be taught in every public 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



19 



scliool jn ihv founty over which ihey })ic'si(U', cloiieiitary 
phyHi()h)gy, especiall}- as it relates to the ctt'ects of alcoholic 
stimulants and narcotics, morally, mentally and physically; and 
all persons applyini«; for certificates to leach shall be examined 
upon this branch of study, undoi- the same conditions as other 
branches reqiiired by law. 

16th. To fix the compensation for the sei'vices of the County 
Superintendent of. Public Instruction. 

16th. To perform all acts reasonable and necessary for the 
promotion of the educational interests of the county and the 
general diffusion of knowledge among the citizens. 

17th. To hold regular meetings for the transaction of busi- 
iieee, by arrangement with the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, and to convene a special session on emergencies 
when requested by the Conuty Superintendent of Public In- 
struction. 

18th. To prepare on or before the last Monday in June of 
each year, an itemized estimate showing the amount of money 
required for the maintenance of the necessary common schools 
of their county for the next ensuing scholastic year, stating 
the amount in mills on the dollar of taxable property of the 
count}', Avhich shall not be less than three nor more than five 
mills, and furnish a copy of the statement to the Assessor of 
Taxes of the county, and tile a copy in the office of the Board 
of Public Instruction, and the Assessor shall assess the amount 
so stated, and the Collector shall collect the amount assessed 
and pay over the same monthly to the County Treasurer, who 
is also by law School Treasurer, to be used for the sole bene- 
fit of the public schools. 

19th. To select candidates for admission to tht^ State Col- 
lege and Seminaries. 

20th. To appoint, prior to any authorized examination, three 
teachers holding the highest grade certificate among the teach- 
ers of the county as a grading committee; aud to keep secret 
the names of persons comprising said committee until its w'ork 
is performed. 

2 1 St. To fix a school day to comprise not less than five (5) 
and not more than six (6) hours, exclusive of recesses, and the 
time for the opening of the public schools for each county; 
Promded, That all schools must begin so as to close before the 
last day of June. 



1899. 



To rt'<|uire 
yiivsiologv 
tiuiglit. 
Rev. Stilt . 
See.-242, lOth. 



'J'o lix pay of 
(;omity Supei- 
iiiientient. 



PlL'iiiivy [lOAV- 
eis. 



'I'd holil reg- 
ular ineetin.srs. 



To make an 
itomized esti- 
mate for the 
ensuing scho- 
lastic vear. 



K.M . Stat. , 
Sec, •242,14th. 



To Femintiries, 
etc. 



Id appoint 
Grariing- Com- 
mittee. 
Abbr. Sec. (>, 
(hap. 4331, 
aud Sec. 44, 
Chapt. 4192. 

To 6x limits 
of school day 
and date for 
schools to 
open. 

A bbr. Chap - 
41!W and 
4t'.>«i. 



20 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To order elec- 
tions III school 
districts. 
Atobr. Sec. 2, 
Chapter 4678, 
June 5, 1899. 



Scliool Board 
Districts. 
Abbr. Chap. 
4193, June 2, 
1893. 



To take school 
census. Sec. 
2, Chapter 
4679, June o, 
1899. 



To look after 
poll taxes . 
Abbr. Sec. 1, 
Chap. 4666. 



Not contract 
■with members. 
Rev. Stat. , 
Sec. 243. 



Cf" unties to be 
divided into 
School Board 
Districts. Sec 
2, Chapter 
4193. 



22d. To order elections for the creation of special tax school 
districts, for the selection of School Trustees, for fixing the 
rate of millage to be levied in such districts, whenever the 
provisions pertaining thereto in Chapter 4678 are complied 
with; to determine the result of all such elections, and to per- 
form other duties prescribed in said Chapter. 

2Bd. To sub-divide the county into School Board Districts, 
to tile a certified copy of their action with the County Clerk 
and publish the same, as prescribed in Chapter 4193, Session 
Laws of 1893. 

24th. To have school census taken, in case the County Su- 
perintendent of Schools shall fail to perform any duty imposed 
upon him by the preceding section [Sec. 48, Par. 16th], as and 
when the same is required to be performed, it shall be the duty 
of the County School Board to cause the same to be done as soon 
as practicable by some person or persons to be selected by such 
Board. 

25th. To examine at least twice each year the books and 
records of the Tax Coll actor which relate to the collection of 
poll taxes and said Board shall require prompt settlement for 
poll taxes, assessed, together with those not assessed but col- 
lected. Any Tax Collector or member of a County School Board 
who shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this act 
shall be suspended from ofKce. 

Sec. 41. No Board of Public Instruction shall have power 
to enter into contract with any of its members, except for the 
purpose of obtaining school sites. 

ELECTION OP COUNTY BOARDS OP PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Sec. 42. At the first meeting in July, 1894, the County 
Board of Public Instruction in each county shall divide their 
respective counties into three county School Board Districts s< 
as to place in each district, as nearly as practicable, the same 
number of qualified voters, the lines of said districts being so 
drawn as to place each election district wholly within one or 
another of said county School Board Districts ; and the 
members of the County School Board [County Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction] shall file in the ofiice of the Clerk of the Cir. 
cuit Court for such county a certificate of their said action, 
containing a description of the boundaries of said district, and 
naming the election districts comprising each county School 
Board District, which certificate shall be published in a news- 

^ee Sections 1, 3, 4. 9, 12, Chapter 4.515, [No. 1] and Sec. 2. Chap. 4516 
[No. 2.1 



SCHOOL LAWS. -1 

paper published in the county; or if there be no newspaper ' "^^- 

published in the county, then by posting at the county court- 
Jiouse door for four weeks thereafter. The County School 
I?oard may thereafter change the boundaries of any such dis- may "e^^"*"" '** 
tricts at a meeting in July of the year of a general election, «i>iiri^'uii. 
but such change shall be certified in the Clerk's ottice and pub- 
lished as required fur fixing such districts in the first instance. 

Sec. 48. That at the next general election, and every two 
vsars thereafter, there shall be elected in each county in this Ki'^i^npn of 
htate a County Board of Public Instruction, hereinafter men- 
tioned as the County School Board, consisting of three mem- 
bers, whose terms of office shall begin the first Tuesday after Ttnureof 
the first Monday in January after such election, and termi- ^'^P""] /"^" ' 
iiate upon the qualification of their successors two years there- 
after. 

Si;<'. 44. * * A County Board of Public Instruction con- 
. . ,. , , • 1 ,• u o u 1 T> 1 How olet'tecl. 

sistiiig of three members, one member from each Schoof Board Aobr. see. ;{, 

District, elected from the several counties at large of this ^'''''i' *"'•'" 

State, shall be chosen at the general election A. D. LS98, and 

i\i every general election thereafter, unless changed by law. 

Skc. 4."). All vacancies on said Board shall be filled for the 
unexpired term by appointment by the State Board of Educa- how'^aauji. 
tion, on the nomination of the State Superintendent of Public ^.fl^.,^' *^'''^p- 
Instruction. 

SI'KClAL DUTY OF >IONROE ("OlN'l'Y KOAltl). 

Sec. 40. The County Board of Public Instruction of Mon- tq ^.H^pioy 

roe county are hereby autliorized and required to employ a teaciiers tor 

competent teacher to instruct the Cuban pupils of the San schooi. 

Carlos sehool, in the city of Key West, in the elements of the M'Jjy''3i*'^i8!")(> 
English language. 

Sec. 47. The said Board of Public Instruction shall make 
provisions for the payment of the salary of the teacher so em- 
ployed, out of the common school fund of said Monroe 
oounty. 

POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COL^NTY SUPERIN- 
TENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



Duties of. 



Sec. 48. The County Superintendent of Public Instruction 
is directed — 

1st. To make timely inspection of the county, to ascertain ^. • . 
the location in which schools should be established, the num- county. 
ber of youth who would attend each, and the amount of aid |fc^24a' ' 



22 



SCIIOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To visit and 
examine each 
school. 



To give advice, 



To awaken in ■ 
terest. 



To confer -witk 
Supervisors. 



To select :fit 
persons for 
Supervisors . 



To keep record 
of each school. 



To report 



T© decide 
disputes. 



To leok after 
selaool build- 
ings and funds. 



To held ex- 
aminations, 
ete. Abbr. 
Chaps. 419-2 
an* 4331. 



that the citizens of the neigliborhood will contribute to encour- 
age the establiishment of a school. 

2d. To visit each school at least once during each school 
term, and to make a thorough examination of its condition as- 
respects the progress of the pupils in learning, the order and 
discipline observed, the sj'steni of inspection pursued, the at- 
tendance of the pupils, the mode of keeping the school records., 
the character and condition of the school buildings, furniture, 
books, apparatus and premises, the efficiency of the school 
Supervisor, the interest and co-operation of the citizens in re- 
gard to educational matters, and to give such advice as he may 
judge proper. 

3d. To do all in his power to awaken an increased interest 
in parents, guardians,, school Supervisors and teachers, with re- 
gard to the better education of youth in every respect, and 
the general diffusion of knowledge. 

4th. To confer with the school Supervisors frequentl}^ and 
see that they attend to their duties, keeping them supplied 
with a copy of the school laws, decisions, blanks and regula- 
tions of the department. 

5th. To select for school Supervisors persons whose charac- 
ter, qualifications and sympathy with education specially com- 
mend them to those positions. 

6th. To keep a record by number, name and description of 
the locality of each school established, of the expenses in- 
curred for, and of his visits of inspection to, the several 
schools. 

7th. To notify the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, immediately upon entering his duties, of the names and 
addresses of all county school officers. 

8th. To decide upon questions in dispute which arise under 
the operations of this act, when submitted to him by the par- 
ties interested, and to refer hia decisions to the Board of 
Public Instruction. 

10th.. To see that the interests of the county are properly 
guarded, and its rights secured in the making and performance 
of every contract for the construction of school buildings, or 
for other purposes; and that all moneys apportioned to or 
raised by the county are applied to the objects for which they 
were granted or raised. 

11th. To examine candidates for teaching and to issue cer- 
tificates, performing all acts is connection therewith as pre- 
scribed by statutes. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



I'Jth. To lioM a specual exaiiiiiiation, ami issue tempoi-ary 
^certificates for a term of not lonijer tliaii the interval between 
the regular examinations, provided the applicant for such cer- 
tificate furni>shes satisfactory reasons for having failed to at- 
tend the regular examination. 

IStli. To revoke or suspend certificates, and to suspend 
those issued by other autliority for cause manifestly sufficient, 
giving notice in writing to the authority issuing them and of 
the grounds for so doing; also notifying the teacher in like 
manner, and of the right of appeal, to whom and when such 
appeal should be made. See Sectioyi I'l. 

14th. To receive from the Grading Committee, file and 
properly preserve in his office, for at least one year, all exami- 
nation questions; and to publish in the newspaper designated 
by any dissatisfied examinee the questions and his answers to 
the same upon request and of said examinee. 

15th. Acting as Secretary of the County School Hoard, to 
make and forward monthly a certified copy of the monthly 
.]ists of persons who have paid their poll taxes, mentioned in 
Section 1 of this Act, [Chapter 400G] to the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, who shall file and preserve the 
same in his office as a part of the public records and furnish 
•copies thereof when requested by citizens of this State. 

16th. Before the 15th day of May in the year 1900, and 
every ten years thereafter, to take the census of all children 
in his county, between the ages of 6 and 21 years; and if any 
such children be idiots, or insane, or blind, or deaf-mutes he 
■shall so state, and he shall report such census to the School 
Board of the county, and to the State Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Instruction, on or before the first day of June of the year 
in which such census shall be taken. He shall certify to such 
report, as being correct, and shall be paid three cents for each 
■child so reported, and upon his failing to perform the duties 
herein required of him, he shall be relieved from office. In 
case he shall employ any person or persons to assist in making 
any such enumeration of such children, such person or per- 
sons shall make a sworn statement showing when and where 
such enumeration was made, and that the same is correct, and 
the same shall be filed by the Superintendent with the School 
Board as part of his report. 

Note— County Superintendent not authorized to purchase lands 
for school purposes without being authorized by County Board of 
Instruction. Board of Public Instruction Nassau County vs. BilHngs, 
1.3Fhi.,68«. 



1899. 

Special exam- 
inations. 
Abbr. .See. 9, 



I'll rerolce or 
suspend cer- 
tilii;ates. 
KeY. Stat. 8ec. 

•2 ft J. 



To tile exam • 

illation papers, 

etc. 

.Vbbr. Sec. i:i, 

CUap. 4192. 



I'o tile poll tax 
lists. Sec. '2, 
Chapter 4<>B({. 



To take .school 
census. Sec. I, 
Chap. 4699. 



24 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. 



Section 49. There shall be held two examinations a year 

Two examina- . • i ,-, i • • mi e .^ 

tions yearly, in each county in tlie State, beginning on 1 iiesday alter the 
first Monday in Jane and September, and each may continue 

Dates lor. ^^^ ^^ more daj^s at the discretion of the examiner and a vote 

of the examinees; Provided^ That only one examination may 
be held in any county if two be found unnecessary; Provided 
further, That County Superintendents may hold a special ex- 

Speeiai exam- amination, and issue Temporary Certificates for a term of not 

ination. Sec. ■, ^ ■ -r ^ " i ^ • • 

t), Chap. 4331. longer than the interval between the regular examinations^ 
provided the applicant for such certificate furnishes satisfac- 
tory reasons for having failed to attend the regular examina- 
tion. 

Sec. 50. That at least one of the examinations of teachers 
shall be held at the county seat of the county in which the 
examination is held. Provided, That where two examinations^ 
are held the County Board of Public Instruction may desig- 
nate another convenient place for holding one of such exami- 
nations other than the county site. 

Sec. 51. The State Superintendent, for sufficient cauSe^ 
may order examinations held on days other than those pre- 
scribed by Section 19 [49 above] of this act. 

Sec. 52. Candidates for Third, Second, or First Grade Cer- 
tificates shall be examined by the County Superintendent of 
Public Instruction on questions prepared in all cases by the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, The questions 
shall be sent sealed to the County Superintendents of the va- 
rious counties, which seal shall not be broken until the morn- 
ing of the day on which the questions for that day are to be 
used, and then only in the presence of the persons assembled 
for examination. Any person or persons w4io shall be found 
guilty of securing or attempting to secure the prepared ques- 
tions, or who shall furnish the prepared questions to any 
teacher or other person in any other way than prescribed by 
this act, shall be debarred from teaching a school or front 
holding any school office in this State. The candidates for 
certificates shall ask no questions, nor receive assistance from 
any source during the examination. In case any examinee 
may be in doubt as to the meaning of any question, he or she 
may state in writing the point in doubt and answer accord- 
ingly, which answ^er shall receive due consideration in grading 
the papers. 



One examina- 
tion at county 
seat. Jb. Sec. 
11. 



Special exam- 
inations. Sec. 
20, Chap. 
4192. 



Who County 
{Superinten- 
dent to exam- 
ine. 



Questions to 
1)6 sent under 
seal. 



When to he 
broken . 



Penalty for 
cheating. 



Procedure in 
case of doubt 
as to meaning 
of question. 
lb. 10. 



SCHOOL LAWS. ih 

SEf. 5.'}. All examination papers shall be prepared in the 1899. 
presence of the County Superintendent or his appointed as- ' 
sistant, who shall collect the questions and answers on each Mode of eon- 
branch as completed, and said examiner shall accept no paper i^,"aUons^^^'"" 
of any examinee containing a name or mark which would in- •»). ii. 
dicate to any other than the examiner its author. Said ex- 
aminer shall himself, on collecting each paper, designate it by 
a number known only to himself, and shall keep a record by 
number and by name of the author of each examination paper. 
Every examinee shall complete and hand in the answers on 
each branch before the questions on any other branch shall be 
given out. When every examinnee has completed all the 
branches, the examiner shall arrange and bundle together all 
the papers of each examinee and shall deliver the whole to a 
Grading Committee. 

G HADING COMMITTEE. 

Sec. 54. It shall be the dutv of the County Hoard of Public <;oumy Board 

- . , „ ", , . . •: . Board to ai>- 

Instruction, before every public examination, to appoint a pointaudto 
Grading Committee, and to keep secret the names of persons nlmeso'/*^'^ 
comprisinor said committee until its work is performed. '^'c 14. chap- 

i- ^ » ler 4192. 

Sec. 55. The County Board of Public Instruction, prior to 
any authorized examination, shall appoint three teachers hold- wik, eligible. 
ing the highest grade certificate among the teachers of the 
county as a Grading Committee; said committee shall, imme- 
diately after the close of any examination, carefully examine 
and grade each paper turned over lo it by the County Super- ouut-sof. 
intendent. When the said committee sliall have completed 
its work it shall deliver back to the County Superintendent all 
papers turned over to it, with a gradation sheet showing the 
grade of each examinee in each branch upon which he or she 
was examined, also the average grade and rank of each ex- '^radatioa 
arainee. The County Superintendent shall then, for the first 
time, make known to the Grading Committee the names cor- 
responding to the number of any examinee, and shall then, in 
the presence of said committee, present his list and write on 
said gradation sheet the name of each examinee after his or 
her proper number. The said Grading Committee shall retain 
one copy of said gradation sheet, and shall lile one with the to retain copy. 
County Superintendent, who shall issue certificates to the ex- 4331.^'*^*^^^^' 
aminees, making averages according to the provisions of Sec- 
tions 1, 2 and 3 [62, 63 and 64 of this compilation] of this 
act, and to no others. 



26 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To file papers 
-with Couuty 
Superinten ■ 
dent sec. 13, 
4192. 



Pay of com- 
mittee. 



Time allowed. 



Balance fund 
how applied, 
lb., Sec. 15. 



Wlio may 
teach. Sec. 1, 
Chap. 4192. 
June 8, 1893. 



Five grades of. 
lb., Sec. '2. 



Mode of exam- 
ination, lb., 3. 



Who eligible. 



Fee. lb. 4. 



Requirements 
for Tlaird 
Grade. Fee i , 
Chapter 4;i31. 



Sec. 56. All examination questions and answers prepared 
by the applicant for certificates shall be filed in the office of 
the County Superintendent and be properh^ preserved for at 
least one year; and in case any candidate is dissati.^fied with 
the grading of his or her papers, he or she may authorize the 
County Superintendent to have his or her answers, with the 
questions, published in any newspaper the examinee may des- 
ignate. 

Sec. 57. It shall be the duty of the County Board to pay 
the members of the Grading Committee two dollars a day and 
5 cents a mile each way, one trip, for the actual distance trav- 
eled and for the time necessary to perform their work. In 
estimating a day, ten hours actual service shall be counted a 
day, and not more than five days shall be allowed for the com- 
pletion of the grading of all the papers after any examination. 
The Grading Committee shall be paid out of the fund created 
by the examination fees and the balance of said fund shall be 
kept by the County Board and be applied to employing lec- 
turers and to defraying the expenses of Teachers' Institutes in 
the county. 

TEAC 1 1 E RS' C ERTIFIC ATE S . 

Section 58. No person shall be permitted to teach in the 
public schools of this State who does not hold a teacher's cer- 
tificate, granted in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 

Sec. 59. There shall be five grades of certificates issued as 
herein specified, and named respectively, to- wit: Third Grade, 
Second Grade, First Grade, State, and Life, Certificates. 

Sec. 60. No certificate, except Life Certificates, shall be 
issued except on written examination, or written and oral ex- 
aminations, as provided in this act. 

Sec. 61. Any applicant for a certificate of any grade, before 
being eligible for examination, shall present to the examiner a 
written endorsement of good moral character from a responsi- 
ble person, and shall pay an examination fee of one dollar, 
which fund shall be applied as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 62. An applicant for a Third Grade Certificate shall be 
examined in orthography, reading, arithmetic, English gram- 
mar, composition, United States history, geography, physi- 
ology, and theory and practice of teacliing, and must make an 
average grade in the abov'e named branches of sixty (60) per 
cent., with a grade in no branch below forty (40) per cent. 
The examination in reading shall be both oral and written. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1m>i' First 
(irail.'. S 



For State Cer- 
tificate, 
lb., Sec. 4. 



Sep. Go. A Second (Trade Certificate shall be i.ssuod on e.v- 1899. 

amination in the branches as prescribed for Third Grade Cer- por secona 
tificate. An average grade of seventy-tive (75) per cent, shall «i';>'ie ^^ 
be required, with a grade in no branch below Mty (.lO) per 
cent. 

Sec. 64. An applicant for a First Grade Certificate shall l)e 
examined in civil government, algebra and physical geography, 
in addition to the branches required for a Third Grade Certifi- 
cate.. An applicant for a First Grade Certificate must make 
an average grade of eighty (80) per cent, and shall grade in 
no branch below sixty (60) per cent. 

Sko. 65. A State Certificate shall be issued only by the State 
^superintendent of Public Instruction to persons holding a 
Plrst Grade Certificate and who have taught at least twenty- 
four (24) months, (eight months of which must have been 
taught in this State successfully under a First Grade Certifi- 
cate). The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall issue 
no State Certificate except on written examination in the fol- 
lowing branches: Geometry, trigonometry, physics, zoology, 
botany, Latin, rhetoric, English literature, mental science and 
general history. A candidate for a State Certificate must 
make an average grade on the prescribed branches of eighty- 
five (85) per cent, with the grade in no branch below sixty 
(60) per cent. 

ii'^SEc. 66. Any teacher holding a State Certificate i.ssued un- 
der this Act, and such of Chapter 4192 of the Laws of Florida 
as are not hereby repealed, and wlio has taught successfully in a 
High School in this State for the period of thirty (80) months, 
may be granted a Life Certificate by the State Superintendent, 
without further examination, if endorsed by three persons 
holding State Certificates as possessing eminent teaching abil- 
ity and as having been eminently successful in governing and 
conducting a school. 

Sec. 67. Third Grade Certificates shall be good only in the 
county in which they are issued. 

Sec. 68. First and Second Grade Certificates may be en- 
dorsed by the County Superintendent of any county in the 
State, and shall theji be good in the county in which it is en- 
dorsed as well as the one in wliich it was issued. 

Sec. 69. A Third Grade Certificate shall be goo. I for two 
years from date ef issue. A Second Grade Certih\-ate shall jerm of 
be good for three yrars from date of issue, and a First Grade ib-. ^ee. lo. 
Certificate shall be good for ftmi' vcars from date of issue. 



CO. ;?. 



For Life Cer- 
tificate, 
lb., Sec. 5. 



Tliiril rjrade 
limited. 
lb., Sec. 7. 



Fir.«t and Sec- 
ond Grades 
transferrable. 
lb.. Sec. 8. 



28 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Who entitled 
to benefits, 
lb.. Sec. 1'2. 



First Grade is- 
suiihle upon 
■what diplomas. 



Proviso, 
]b., Sec. 



U. 



Revocation of. 
Sec. 18, Chap. 
4192. 



With regards 
to studies aud 
mora s. 
Rev. Stat., 
Sec. 253. 



To habits of 
pupils. 



School prop- 
erty. 



To disei.:>line. 



To suspend 
pupils. 



And all certilicates granted in accordance with the provisions 
of this act, [Chapter 4831] and such of Chapter 4192 of the 
laws of Florida as are not hereby repealed, shall be re-issuable 
upon examination. 

Se€. 70. That all persons holding certificates granted in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of Chapter 4192 of the laws of 
l<lorida, shall be entitled to all the benefits and governed by 
the provisions of this act \_Ohap. 4331]. 

Sec. 71. That any person holding a diploma of graduation 
from either of the State Normal Colleges of this State, upon 
presentation of said diploma to any County Superintendent m 
this State, shall be entitled to a First Grade Certificate with- 
out examination; Provided., The person holding such diploma 
applies for such certificate wnthin one year from the granting 
of such diploma. 

Sec. 72. A certificate of any grade may be revoked by the 
authority issuing it, when the holder proves to be unsuccess- 
ful, incompetent, or is proven guilty oi any gross immorality. 
A First [or Second] Grade Certificate may be revoked for any 
-of the above reasons by a County Superintendent endorsing 
it. 

DLTTIES AND POWERS OF TEACHERS. 

SEi'Tiox 78. Every teacher is directed — 

1st. To labor faithfully and earnestly for the advancement 
of the pupils in their studies, deportment and morals, and to 
embrace every opportunity to inculcate, by percept and ex- 
ample, the principles of truth, honesty, patriotism, and the 
practice of every Christian virtue. 

2d. To require the pupils to observe personal cleanliness, 
neatness, order, promptness and gentility of manners, to avoid 
vulgarity and profanity, and to cultivate in them habits of in- 
dustry aud economy,' a regard for the rights and feelings of 
others, and their own responsibilities and duties as citizens. 

3d. To see that the school-house, and all things pertaining 
thereto, ai'e not iinnecessarily defaced er injured. 

4th. To enforce needful restrictions upon the conduct of 
the pupils in or near the school-house or grounds, avoiding at 
all tunes unnecessary severity and measures of punishment 
that are degrading in their tendency. 

5tb. To suspend pupils from school for ten days for gros."? 
immorality, misconduct or persistent violations of the regula. 
tions, giving immediate notice to the parents or guardian of 



SCHOOL LAWS, 



29 



l)ie pupil, and to the school Mipervisor, of the suspension an<l 1899. 
the cause of it. ~~~ 

<>th. To hold a public examinaibn at the close of each 
Bchool term, either oral or written. 

7th. To deliver up the ke3's and all school property to the 
Supervisor on closing or suspending the school, and in all 
things to conform to the regulations of the department. 

Sec. 74. No teacher, while actually engaged in his profes- RxL-niptioiis. 
sion, shall be liable to military or jury duty. "^ ' ^'^^- "-^*- 



'J"<) liold oxiiin- 
iuatuiu'b. 



To confiirni u> 
rc,i.'-ulat,(>]is. 



SCHOOL SUPERYISOKS. 

Section 75. Every Supervisor is directed — 

1st. To supervise the work and management of the school 



Duties of. 
Uev. Stilt. 
•211. 



piofijiity. 



1 • • i X 1 • 1 1 • -1 T To report 

and Its interests over which he is appointed, and report moiuiiiy. 
monthly to the Board of Public Instruction, 

2d. To supervise the construction, rental, repair and im- 
provement of the school buildings, furniture, fences, grounds 
and fixtures; to procure a copy of the school laws, regulations 
and decisions for the use of the teacher and for his own in- 
struction. 

3d. To attend, at all times, when requested by, and cooper- 
ate with the teacher in his efforts to elevate the character and 
condition of the school; to review all suspensions from school 
by the teacher of pupils guilty of gross misconduct and a dis- 
regard of and persistent opposition to the authority of the 
teacher, and to promptly report the same to the County Su- report 
perintendent of Public Instruction. 

Sec. 76. Whenever a special school aistrict is created and 
Trustees are elected, they shall have the supervision of all the 
public schools within said district. The position of Supervisor 
shall be suspended by that of Trustees, and the duties pre- 
scribed by law for Supervisors shall be performed b}' the 
Trustees. 

A SCHOOL YEAR, TERM, ETC. 

Se(^ 77. Beginning with July 1st, A. D. 18c^3,.the school 
year for all public schools shall begin on the first day of Jul}'^ 
and end with the last day of the following June; and all re- 
ports, financial and otherwise, to the State Department shall 
embrace such business and matters only as take place within 
the limits of the school year thus defined. 



To CO operate 
with teacher. 



To review sus- 
pensions find 



Supervisor !^u- 
per eded. 
A libr. , See. S, 
Chapter 4678. 



School voar. 
Sec. l,"cliap 
41<)(). 



30 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



When schools 
inav begin 
lb. ," Sec. 2. 



Openhis; and 
closing of; 
schools. lb. 
Sec. 2 . 



School dar. 
Chap. 41'i5, 
Juaee, 1893. 



Term . 

Year. 

Holiday.ii. 
Rev. Stat. 
Sec. 256. 



Lost timf. 
lb. , Sec 25" 



Designation of 
scliool dis- 
tricts. Sec. 1 , 
Chapter 467S. 



Election tor 
creating a .<-pe- 
cial tax school 
district. 



Sec. 78. No school in any county shall begin before July 
1st of the school year to which that term of school belongs 
and for which the apportionment was made. 

Sec. 79. The time for the opening of the public schools for 
each county shall be determined by the County Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction; Provided, That all schools must begin so as 
to close before the last day of June. 

Sec. 80. 1st. A school day shall comprise not less than five 
(5) and not more than six (6) hours, exclusive of recesses. 
The time to be fixed by the Board of Public Instruction of 
each county. 

2d. A school month contains twenty days, exclusive of the 
first and last days of the week. 

3d. A school term contains four school months. 

4th. The school year contains two terms. 

Sec. 81. All recognized State or National holidays are 
school holidays.* 

Sec. 82. Lost time may be made up by a teacher, at the 
discretion of the School Supervisor, when no conflict would 
be occasioned with the arrangements of the Board of Public 
Instruclioni. 

SPECIAL TAX SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 83. That each county shall constitute a school unit; 
that all sub-divisions of a county for school purposes shall 
be designated as school districts ; all school districts levying 
a school district tax shall hereafter be designated as special 
tax school districts, and all schools receiving any district 
tax, as special tax schools. 

Sec. 84. It shall be the 'duty of the Board of Public In- 
structien of any county to order an election to be held in any 
sub-division of any city or incorporated town, community or 
sub-division of the county, at such time and place as said 
Board maiy direct, whenever one-fourth of the qualified elec- 
tors that pay a tax on real or personal propert}^ and are 
resident in such city, incorporated town, comraimity, or sub- 
division of the county, shall petition for such election, to 



*The legal hoIida.ys are: The first day of the week, Sunda.v, .Tanuary 
1st., New Year's Day; January 19th. Birth Day of Robert E. Lee; February 
•2:id, Washington's Birth- Day; April 36th, Memorial Day; .Tune 3.i, Birth-day 
of Jefferson Davis: July 4th, Independence Day: first Mondo.y in September, 
Labor Day: General B'ection Day; Thanksfriving- Day; December 25th, 
Ohri-tmas Da.v.-- Fid* Revised Statutes, Section ;?315, and Chapters 4068, 4198, 
4Sir ar,d4ias, Laws of Fi nida. 



scnooi. LAWS. 



:]1 



<U'U'rmine whether such city, incorporated town, comtnunity 
or snb-divifsion of the county shall become a special lax school 
(listrict for the purpose of levying and collecting a district 
school tax for the exclusive use of public free schools within 
the district; at such election the following matters shall be 
determined by a majority of the ballots cast by electors quali- 
fied as herein prescribed, except that the tlnee persons re- 
ceiving the liighest vote at such election shall be declared 
School Trustees of said district: First, whether the city, in- 
corporated town, communi^ or sub-division of the county 
shall become a special tax Bchool district ; Second, who shall 
be the School Trustees of said district; Third, the number of 
mills of district tax to be levied and collected annually' for 
the two succeeding yeare. The three persons receiving the 
highest number of votes caet shall be declared the Trustees 
elected for the special tax school district; provided, a majority 
of all the votes cast be in favor of creating such special tax 
district, who shall serve for the next ensuing two years and 
perform the duties hereinafter prescribed. 

Sec. 85. The petition mentioned above in this act shall 
prescribe the boundaries of the sub-division of any city, or 
city, incorporated town, community or sub-division of the 
county intended to be formed into a special tax school dis- 
trict. The Board-of Public Instruction may, however, change 
the boundaries thereof before ordering any such election ; 
but shall in no case include territory not included in original 
petition, and shall give notice of any such change in the 
notice of election. Special tax school districts created under 
this act, shall continue unti^ dis-established or changed by 
like proceeding as those by which they were created. The 
petition provided for b}' Section 2 (Sec. 84) of this act shall 
be published once a week, for four (4) successive weeks, in 
some newspaper published in the county having a general cir- 
culation throughout the county; and the publication shall state 
when such petition shall be {)resented to such Boards. In 
case there shall be no newspaper published in the county, 
such petition and notice shall be posted in the manner pro- 
vided in Section 4 [Sec. 86 ] of this act for the posting of no- 
tice of election. 

Sec. 86. It shall be the duty of the Board of PuVjlic In- 
struction of tlie county to cause a notice of said election to 
be published once a week for four successive weeks prior 
thereto in a newspaper published within the county, and hav- 
ing a 'general circulation throughout the county; but if no 
newspaper be published in said county, then it shall cause five 



1899. 



Majority vote 
necessary. 



Matters to be 
(letormmeil.- 



Term oJ' Trus- 
tee*. IV». 



Boiiuds ®f clis- 
triet to be pre- 
scribcfl. 



Subject to 
chittifie. 



Term of. 



Petition to 
published, 
lb., ^ec. ;?. 



be 



Notice <»f elec- 
tion to be pub- 
lished . 



SCriOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



NVho to ap- 
point inspector 
etc. lb., 
Stc. 4. 



Who eligible 
to vote. 



Who pay co.-t 
of election, 
lb., Sec. 7. 



Mode of (,'on - 
•dutting elec- 
tions . 



Duty of Siiper- 
Yisor of Kejiis- 
tration. lb., 
.Sec. ti. 



"Who to cau- 
"vass vote, 
lb., Sec. 5. 



TSlections to be 
held bienni- 
ally, lb., 

Sec. S. 



Form of ballot. 



written or printed notices of said election to be posted in five 
public places within the territory in which the election is 
ordered. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Public 
Instruction to appoint inspectors and clerks for said election, 
whose duties shall be the same as those of similar officers in 
general elections, except as herein stated. 

Sec. 87. All qualified votei'S residing within the territory 
sought to be made a special tax school district that pay a tex 
on real or personal property shall be entitled to vote in said 
election, and a majority of the votes cast shall determine any 
matter voted uDon, pertaining to a special tax school district. 
The cost of the publication of the notice of such election, and 
of the election itself, shall ,be paid by the County Board of 
Public Instruction out of the first moneys collected from ihe 
special tax district. 

Sec. 88. All special tax school district elections shall be 
held and conducted in the manner prescribed by law for hold- 
ing general elections, except as provided in this act, and it is 
hereby made the duty of the Supervisor of Registration of 
any county to furnish, upon payment for such service, to the 
County Board of Public Instruction, on demand, a certified 
list of the qualified voters residing in a special tax school dis- 
trict, or the territory to be created into a special tax school 
district, that have paid a tax on real or personal property for 
the year next preceding any such special tax election. 

Sec. 89. The Board of Public Instruction shall canvass the 
returns of election as made to it by the inspectors and clerks 
of election, and declare the results at the next regular meet- 
ing of said Board, or at a special meeting called for that pur- 
pose. 

Sec. 90. Elections shall be held bi-ennially in each special 
tax school district, as near as practicable upon the anniversary 
of the original election, under the direction of the County 
Board of Public Instruction, to determine who shall be Trus- 
tees for the succeeding two years, and the number of mills of 
district school tax to be levied for each of said years; said 
elections shall be held under the same rules and regulations, 
and qualifications of electors shall be the same as prescribed 
for those voting in the original election creating a special tax 
school district. 

Sec. 91. Each voter voting at any election under this act 
shall vote but one ballot, and the same shall be written, or 
printed in black ink on plain white paper, and be substantially 



1899. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 

of the following form, according as he may desire to vote upon 

any, or all of the questions submitted: ' 

For (or Against) Special Ta.^ School District 

School Trustees (stating their names) vo'I"i on'" '"' 

lb . Set 17. 



Maximum tax levy mills. 

Nothing in this act shall have the effect to abrogate 
or anywise impair any existing school sub-district, [Spec- 
ial Tax School District] but the same are hereafter to be gov- 
erned bv this act. 



DUTIES AND POWERS OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 

Sec. 92. Whenever a special tax school district is created 
and Trustees are elected, they shall have the supervision of all 
the public schools within said district. The position of Su- 
pervisor shall be superseded by that of Trustees, and the du- 
ties prescribed by law for Supervisors shall be performed by 
the Trustees. The powers of Trustees shall not be those of 
control, but of supervision only, and shall extend to all the 
public schools within the special district. Any Trustee fail- 
ing to discharge the duties of the position shall be removed, 
after due notice to such Trustee, by the County Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction, and ail vacancies occurring in the Board of 
Trustees from any cause, shall be filled for the unexpired, term 
bj' the County Board of Public Instruction, upon nomination 
by the patrons of the school. 

Sec. 93. All public schools conducted within a special tax 
school district shall be under the direction and control of the 
County Board of Public Instruction and County Superintend- 
ent as in other districts, and subject to the same laws, rules 
and regulations prescribed for the conduct of other schools, 
except that the Trustees shall have the power to nominate to 
the County Board of Public Instruction teachers for all schools 
within such special district ; Provided, That no person be 
nominated for teacher who does not hold a teacher's certifi- 
cate unimpaired by suspension, revocation or limitation, or 
that will not remain in full force for the term of school, and 
obtained in compliance with the laws of the State. The 
County Board of Public Instruction shall have the right to 
reject any teacher nominated, and in case the second nomina- 
tion of a teacher for any position be not ratified, the said 



To supersede 
the Supervisor. 



Subject to re- 
moval. 



Vacancies how 
filled, lb., 
Sec. 0. 



TTniier control 
of County 
Board. 



May nominate 

teacheri. 



County Board 
may reject, 
lb., Sec. 10. 



34 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To apportion 
district funds. 
lb., t^ec. 11. 



To prepare 
itemized e;*ti- 
mate. 



To certify 
mi 11 age." 



To report 
railroad and 
telegraph 
line*. 



With wliom to 
file copies. 



Prties of other 
officers in i ela- 
tion to. 



pjoard shall then pioceed on its own motion, to fill vacamties 
in the teaching force in any s^chool in the special tax school 
district. 

Sec. 94. The Board of Trustees shall hare the further 
right to say what proportion of the school funds raised within 
the district shall be applied in any year to buildings, repairs 
on buildings, to school libraries, to salaries of teachers, and 
to other educational purposes,; JProvided, That they shall 
make a fair and equitable distribution of the funds among all 
the schools in the special tax school district, which shall be 
shown in their itemized estimate. 

Sec. 95. It shall be the duty of these Trustees, on or be- 
fore the first day of June in each year, to prepare an itemized 
estimate, showing the amount of money necessary and likely 
to be raised for the supplement of the county school funds 
appropriated to the district for the next ensuing scholastic yean 
and to certify therein the rate of millage voted to be assessed 
and collected upon the taxble property within the special 
lax school district for that year. This estimate shall set 
forth clearly the apportionment of money raised within the 
district prorated to each ischool within the district, statiug 
the amount that will be applied to the salaries of teachers, 
buildings, furniture or for other educational purposes. It 
shall also state the number of miles of railroad track and 
telegraph lines within the bounds of the district. This item- 
ized estimate shall be made in triplicate, one copy to be filed 
with the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, one 
copy with the Comptroller of the State, one copy with tlje 
County Board of Public Instruction ; JProvided, That where 
there are no railroad or telegraph lines in such district such 
itemized estimate need not be furnished to the Comptroller. 
It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to order 
the Assessor to assess, and the Collector to collect the amount 
legally assessed upon the property of the special district, at 
the rate of millage designated by the Board of Trustees, and 
pay the same to the County Treasurer ; it shall be 
the duty of the Comptroller of the State to assess 
all railroads and railroad property, together with 
telegraph lines and telegraph property situated in 
such school special district, and to collect the taxes thereon in 
the same manner as required by law to assess and collect said 
taxes for State and county purposes, and to remit the same to 
the Treasurer of the counties, to be by them held to the credit 
of each special tax school district fund and to be paid out as 
hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the County 



SCIIOOI. LAWS. 



Board of Public Instruction to add the amount set apart for 
the salaries of teachers in each school within the special tax 
school district to the county appropriation made for that 
school, and upon this determine the salaries to be paid teachers 
and the length of the term that the school shall continue, and 
contract with teachers for the full term that said fund, arising 
from both county appropriation and the special tax fund, will 
t^ustain the school. The part of this fund arising from the 
special tax shall be paid to the teachers upon the order of the 
C'Ounty IJoard based upon reports approved by the Trustees, 
the same as other school funds are paid upon the endorsement 
of school Supervisors. The County Treasurer shall be liable 
for all special tax school district funds upon his ofhcial bond, 
after receiving said funds, as in the case of other county rev- 
enues. 

Skc. 9G. The special tax fund set apart by the Board of 
Trustees for the payment of teachers shall not be siil>ject to 
lequisition for any other purpose by said Trustees; the funds 
estimated for other educational puiposes shall be ])aid out by 
warrants of the Board of Public Instruction of the county 
upon the County Treasurer, said warrants to be based upon 
requisitions made by the Board of Trustees accompanied by 
itemized bills for things purchased or work performed. All 
special funds collected within a school district shall be dis- 
bursed solely for school purposes within the district in which 
collected, and, as near as practicable, in the year in which the 
tax is collected, upon the recommendation of the Board of 
Trustees; Promdcd^ That the Trustees shall make no son- 
tract with one of its members embracing any monetary con- 
sideration. 

Skc. 97. The Trustees of any school district shall be a 
corporation and may hold property, sue and be sued, and per- 
form other corporate functions, and perform the usual duties 
necessary to provide buildings, repair the same, and to pur- 
chase libraries and other school appliances; ProoiJed., That no 
debt shall be created without the approval of the County 
Board of Public Instruction. 



1899. 



County Board 
to fix salaries 
and school 
term. 



County Treas- 
urer liable on 
his bond for 
district luud!?, 
Tb. , Sec. VI. 



The fund set 
apart for teach- 
ers not to be 
u.seil lor other 
purposes. 



Other part 
must be ap- 
plied solely to 
education . 



Tru,stees not 
contract with 
one of it< mem- 
f)ers. lb. 
Sec. 13. 



Trustees a cor- 
poration. . 



To create no 

debt. 

lb., Sei-. 14. 



Se< . 98. Children residing outside of any special tax school 
district shall not attend school in any such district without Trustees may 
the consent of the Trustees thereof, and of the County Board allow outsiders 

r T-» 1 !• T • r» .77 ri-«i 1 • 1 • 'o uttend a 

oi Public Instruction; Promded^ J hat nothing in this act special tax 
shall be so construed as to prevent attendance from an adjoin- |ecM.5. ^ " 
sng county, provided the County School Board of such ad- 
3 



36 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To audit Tax 
GolJector's 
Commission. 
Ext. from Sec. 
12, Chap. 
4516. 



Duties of Tax 
Collector in 
regard to. 
Bee. 14, Chap. 
4322. 



Both real and 
pereonal prop- 
erty responsi- 
ble for. 
lb., Abbr. 
Sec. 16. 



Tax Collector 
to file certi ■ 
fled lists. 



School Board 
to examine 
his books. 



joining county shall pay a pro rata share of such attendances- 
Such pro rata share to be estimated bj the Trustees of sucb 
school where such attendance is made; Provided further, TBat 
pupils from other districts or sub-districts [special tax school 
districts] shall be subject to same conditions as pupils from 
other counties as provided in this act. 

Sec. 99. The commissions for collecting the tax for school 
sub-districts [special tax school districts] * * shall be 
audited and allowed by the Trustees of such school, * * 
and shall be at the rate of two per cent, on such collections. 

LAWS RELATING TO POLL TAXES. 

Sec. 100. A poll tax of one dollar shall be levied upon each- 
male person over the age of twenty-one years, and under the 
age of fifty-five years, except such as have lost a limb in bat- 
tle, which tax shall be paid into the county school fund, and 
shall be collected when taxes on property are collected. It 
shall be illegal for a Collector to give any receipt for taxes on 
any property until his poll tax is paid, and the Collector shall 
on the first day of each month make out a statement giving 
the names of the parties who have paid their poll taxes, and 
present the same sworn to by said Collector to the County 
Commissioners at their regular meeting and present the receipt 
of the County Treasurer for the same. 

Src. 101. * * The assessment of personal property shall; 
be made separate from the assessment of real estate, but per- 
sonal property shall be responsible for the taxes on real estate, 
and real estate shall be responsible for the taxes on personal 
property, and both shall be responsible for a poll tax. 

Sec. 102. That from and after the passage of this Act it 
shall be the duty of the Tax Collector in every county of this 
State to file on or before the tenth day of every month with 
the County School Board [County Board of Public Instruc- 
tion], a certified list of the names of all persons 
whose poll taxes were paid during the previous month, 
giving the year for which such payments were made. A copy 
of this list shall also be filed with the County Commissioners 
with a receipt from the County Treasurer for the amount col- 
lected as such poll taxes. It shall be the duty of the School 
Board [County Board of Public Instruction] to examine 
at least twice each year the books and records of 
the Tax Collector which relate to the collection of poll 
taxes and said Board shall require prompt settlement for all 
poll taxes assessed, together with those not assessed but col- 
lected. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Ally Tax ('ullector or rnenibor of a ("< unity .Scliool Board 
[County Hoard of Public Instruction] wlio shall neglect to 
comply with the provisiojis of this act shall he suspended 
from office. 

Sk<-. 10']. It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, acting as Secretary of the County School 
Board [Countj^ Board of I*ublic Instruction], to make and 
forward monthly a certified co])}' of the monthly lists of 
persons who have paid their poll taxes, mentioned in Section 
1 [Sec. lOU] of this Act, to the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, who shall tile and preserve the same in 
his office as a part of the' public records and furnish copies 
thereof when requested by citizens of this State. 



DITTIES OF OFFICERS IN REGAPJ) TO 
TAXES AND FUNDS. 



SCHOOL 



1899. 

Both sublect 
to suspeusioD. 
Sec. 1. Chap. 
46(;6. 



County ftuper- 
iiitenduut to 
tile certified 
lists of polls 
collected with 
State Superiu- 
tendcnt 
lb. ,St?c. ti. 



Sko. 104. It shall be the duty of the Assessor in each 
county, immediately after the assessment of the county has 
ben reviewed and equalized by the County Commissioners, and 
the amount to be raised for State and county and school sub- 
district [special tax school district] and road sub-district pur- 
poses determined, to calculate and carry out the total amount 
of State taxes and the total amount of county taxes, and the 
total amount of school sub-district [special tax school district] 
and road sub-district taxes in three separate columns Drepared 
for that purpose in the assessment roll, setting opposite to the 
aggregate sum set down as the valuation of real and personal 
estate the respective sums assessed as taxes thereon in dollars 
and cents, etc. 

Skc. 105. The County Commissioners shall determine the 
amount to be raised for all county purposes, and shall enter 
upon their minutes the rate to be levied for each fund respect- 
ively, and shall ascertain the aggregate rate necessary to cover 
all such taxes and report the same to the Assessor, who shall 
carry out the full amount of taxes for all county purposes 
under one heading in the assessment roll to be provided for 
that purpose, and the County Commissioners shall notify the 
Clerk and Auditor of the county, also the Treasurer thereof, 
of the amount to be apportioned to the different accounts out 
of the total taxes levied for all purposes, and the Count}^ 
Treasurer in issuing receipts to the Collector shall state in 
each of his receipts, which shall be in duplicate, the amount 
apportioned to each fund out of the payment made to him 
by the Collector, and when any such receipts shall be given 



Of Assessor io 

Mssess school 

taxes. 

Sec. l.Chap. 

4515, .June 5, 

1897. 



Duty of 
County CotK- 
inissionere. 



38 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 

Duty of 
County Treas- 
urer. 



Proviso and 
duties of Sub- 
district Trits- 
tees, 

Sec. 3, Chap. 
4515. 



Form of war- 
rant to be 
given by the 
Asses ior to the 
Tax Collector. 



Collection of 
Sub- district 
taxes author- 
ized. 

Sec. 4, Chap. 
4515. 



to the Collector by the County Treasurer, he shall immediafcelv 
file one of the same with the Clerk and Auditor of the county 
who shall credit the same to the Collector with the amoun- 
thereof, and shall make out and deliver to the Collector a cert 
tificate setting forth the payment in detail, as shown by the 
Treasurer's receipt; Prooided, That the Trustees of each 
school sub-district [special tax school district^ and road sub- 
district shall file a written statement with tlie Tax Assessor 
setting forth the boundary of such school sub-district [special 
tax school district] and road sub-district, and the rate of tax- 
ation to be levied on the real and personal property therein 
as provided by law, and the Assessor shall, upon receipt of 
such statement, proceed to assess such property and enter the 
taxes thereon in separate columns in the assessment roll to be 
provided for that purpose. 

Sec. 106. To the assessment roll for 1897 and subsequent 
years, delivered to the Tax Collector, a warrant under the 
hand of the Assessor shall be annexed in the following form, 
to-wit: 

State of Florida, to , Tax Collector of the 

county of •. : You are 

hereby commanded to collect out of the real estate and per- 
sonal property, and from each of the persons and corporations 
named in the annexed 7-oll, the taxes set down in each roll 
opposite each name, corporation or parcel of land therein 
described, and in case the taxes so imposed are not paid at the 
time prescribed by law, you are to collect the same by levy 
and sale of the goods and chattels, lands and. tenements so 
assessed, or of the person or corporation so taxed; and all 
sums collected for State taxes, you are to pay to the State 
Treasurer at such time as may be required by law, and at the 
same time you are to pay to the County Treasurer all sums 
collected for county taxes, and to the Treasurer of the County 
Board of Public Instruction all sums collected for school taxes, 
and at the same time you are to pay to the duly qualified Trus- 
tees [to the County Treasurer — See Sec. 12, Chapter 4678] of 
each school sub-district [special tax school district] and road 
sub-district all sums collected for school sub-district [special 
tax school] and road sub-district taxes, and you are further 
required to make all collections on or before the first Monday 
in April; and on or before the first Monday in July, you will 
make a final report to and settlement with the Comptroller and 
County Commissioners. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



39 



(iiven under my hand and seal, this the 

da}' of . in the year A. D. 1 89 ... . 

, Assessor of County. 

Skc. 107. As soon as the assessment roll shall be delivered 
to the Collector, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall make out 
and publish a statement showing the amount of taxes charged 
to the Collector to be collected for the current year and the 
apportionment of the same in separate columns to the several 
funds for which such taxes have been levied, including all poll 
taxes, which poll taxes shall be itemized separately in all state- 
ments both as to amounts assessed and as to the amounts col- 
lected, and at each monthly meeting of the County Commis- 
sioners thereafter, and until the tax books are closed, he shall 
publish a statement giving each fund credit with the amount 
collected thereon as shown by the reports of the Tax Collec- 
tor in his office, and when the tax books are closed he shall 
publish a like statement showing the amounts specifically al- 
lowed the collector on account of errors and insolvencies, and 
the amount of each fund uncollected. The aforesaid state- 
ments shall be posted by the Clerk at the court house door, and 
published in a newspaper when one is published in the county, 
and the costs of publishing the same shall be paid by the 
County Commissioners. Any Clerk failing to publish such 
statements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
tion be punished by a fin*e not exceeding two hundred dollars, 
or by imprisonment not exceeding one year; and it shall be 
the dut}'' of the Circuit Court Judges to charge this section to 
the grand juries in their respective counties. 

Sec. 108. * * The County Commissioners of each 
county shall levy a tax not to exceed five mills nor less than 
three and one-quarter (3^) mills on the dollar on the real and 
personal property of the county for school purposes. 

Note. — Fixing the minimum county levy for schools a^ 3} mills is 
undoubtedly unconstitutional. 

Sec. 109. * * Orders upon the County Treasurer of any 
county shall be receivable by such county for county revenue, 
and orders issued by the County Board of Public Instruction 
shall be receivable in the counties where such orders are issued 
for county school taxes. 

Sec. 110. No collector of any count}'^ shall either directly 
or indirectly purchase or receive in exchange any Comptroller's 
warrants, county orders, jurors' certificates, or school district 
orders, for a less arhount than expressed on the face of such 
orders or demand, any such person so offending shall for each 



1899. 



Duty of Clerk 
of Court to ap- 
portion aud 
puDlisli 
amount of 
eacn ta.K. 



polls to ie 
itetiiiKed sep- 
arately. 



Publish col- 
lections 
monthly. 



Penalty for 
failure. 



Duty of Circuit 
Judges. 
Rec.34, Chap. 
4322, June 1, 
1895. 



Duty of 
County Com- 
missioners. 
Ext. Sec. 2. 
Chap. 4516. 



County orders 

receivable for 

ta.Kes. 

lb., Ext. Sec. 

'35 » 



Penalty for 
Ta.x Collector 
dealing in 
State or Coimty 
securities. 
lti.,Sco. 40. 



40 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



I)(ity of State 
Treasurer. 
saev. Sfcat. , 
Sec. 262. 



To wliom pay 
School fund.s. 
lb., Sec. 264. 



Duty of ('Guil- 
ty Treasvirer to 
make monthly 
reports. 
Sec. 1, Ch al- 
ter 43.32. 



Duty of c5erk 
o f Court to 
preserve re- 
T)orts . 

Jb,, Sec. 4. 



Duty of ( !oun ■ 
ty Treasure I 
to keeprtv- 
scription of 
warrants not 
•Tiaid. 



To pay tlu^m 
in order df 
presentation . 
Sec. 1, Cliup. 
4409: 



offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on convic- 
tion thereof, shall be fined in the sum of not less than one 
thousand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, and be 
removed from office. 

Sec. 111. The Treasurer of the [State] Board of Education 
shall keep an account with the several counties, in which he 
shall credit each county with its proportion of the income of 
the common school fund, and of the fund raised by the one 
mill tax authorized by the Constitution, and shall charge each 
with the amounts receipted for by the Treasurers of the Boards 
of Public Instruction. 

Sec. 112. Every officer having moneys which by law go to 
the State school fund shall pay the same to the State Treas- 
urer, and every officer having moneys M''hich by law go to the 
count}'^ school fund shall pay the same to the County Treas- 
urer. 

Siic. 113. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the school 
fund of each count}'^ in this State by the first Monday in each 
and every month, to prepare and file with the County Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction of his county a detailed and 
itemized statement in writing, showing all sums of money re- 
ceived by such Treasurer during the fnonth next preceding, 
and from whom and from what source received, and all 
amounts by him paid out during such time and to whom 
paid, and describing by date, number and amount all warrants 
paid. 

Sec 114. The financial statements of account [Sec. 40, 
Pars. 9th and 10th] hereinbefore provided for, when. filed 
with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, shall be securely kept by 
him and shall at all times be open to the examination and in- 
spection of the people of the county without fee or charge. 

Sec 11.5. The County Treasurer shall enter in a book to be 
kept by him for that purpose, the fact .of the refusal to pay, or 
non-payment of any warrant which may be presented to him, 
as such treasurer, and include in such entry a description of 
the warrant or order, and by whom presented, and date of 
presentation, and his reason for such refusal or non-payment; 
and he shall also, at the request of the person presenting the 
same, endorse on the back of such warrant the fact of such 
refusal or non-payment and reason therefor, and shall pay such 
warrants in the order of their presentation. The Board of 
County Commissioners of each county shall furnish the Treas- 
urer a book for the purpose above specilied, which shall be 
open to the inspection of all citizens. 



SCHOOL LAWS, 41 

CX)U\TV BOARDS OF I'lrBLIC INSTRUCT[OXS 1899. 



MAY CONTRACT I)P:iiTS OR BORROW MONEY. 

Skc. 116. That the Board of County Commissioners upon 
the request of tlie Board ot l*ublic Instruction after an affirm- 
ative vote of the qualified voters who are tax-payers tlierein votcofcer- 
and bftve paid all taxes due by them for two years next and reTiiiredf*^tc. 
preceding said election in any sub-school [special tax school] 
-district or county which debt shall be a charge or lien only 
upon sucli sub-school district [special tax school district] or 
county as the case may be, are hereby authorized to contract 
debts for the purchase of real estate to be used for educational 
purposes, for the erection of school buildings, and to pay such 
debts out of the current income of any 3'ear, or out of the in- 
come of succeeding j'ears; Provided^ That the necessary ex- school expen- 
pense of maintainnig the schools in any county during any otrsciujof *^^™ 
year shall constitute the Hist claim against the school fund of ^l"*^.. ^^^.^cX' 

^ S5 Cluipter 41582. 

that year. 

Skc. 117. Tiiat the Board of Count}' Commissioners upon 
the request of the Board of l^ublic Instruction after an athrm- how may bor- 
ative vote of the qualified voters who are tax-payers therein row immey. 
and have paid all taxes due b}' them for two ^-ears next and 
preceding said election in any sub-school district [special tax 
school district I or county, which debt shall be a charge or 
lien only upon such sub-school district or county as the case 
may be, are hereby authorized to borrow money from time to 
time as occasion may require to discharge any debt or lia- 
bility incurred for the purchase of real estate for educational 
purposes, for the erection of school buildings, and to pay 
the interest and principal out of the current income of any 
3ear, or out of the income of succeeding years; Provided, .^eiiooi expen- 
That the necessary expense ot" maintaining the schools in any fl'^r%^^f''im"^ 
county durine; any year shall constitute the first claim against any year. 
the school fund of that vear. ., ^ . -. 



COUNTY^ LINE PUPILS. 

Skc. 118. When it is more conventient for youth residing when permit- 
in one county to attend school in an adjoining county, they s*^^^i^°^'*„ 
may do so by the concurrence of the Superintendents of Pub- other county. 
lie Instruction of the two counties. The proportion of school 
money for each youth shall be transferred by requisition of 
the County Superintendent of Public Instruction of the county transferred. 
in which the youth resides, upon the Treasurer of the school J®'-.?*^' - 
tunds ot that county to the treasurer ot the school funds ot 
he connty in which the school is located. 



42 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



SCHOOL fu:nds, when forfeited. 



When a coun- 
ty forfeits. 
KfcV. Slat. , 
Sec. 259. 



Sec. 119. Any county or school di-^trict neglecting to es- 
tablish an maintain such school or schools as the available 
funds will support, shall forfeit its proportion of the common 
school fund during such neglect, and in that case all moneys- 
80 forfeited shall be apportioned among the several counties at 
the next annual apportionment. 

Sec. 120. Any public school in the county failing to com- 
when ascnooi plctc its public term before the terminus of the school year 
shall forfeit the proportion of its financial apportionment not 
used by neglecting or failing to maintain a school for the full 
term of school in that county, and in that case all moneys so 
forfeited shall be apportioned among the several schools of the 
county at the next annual apportionment. 

PENALTIES. 

Sec. 121. Whoever, within the school house or grounds^ 
upbraids or insults any teacher in the presence of the jsupils, 
shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding fifteen days, 
or by fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. This section 
shall not apply to any pupil in and subject to the discipline of 
the school. 



forfeits 
Sec. 3, ehap. 
4196, J line 2. 
1893. 



For insulting 
teacher. 
Kev. Stat. , 
Sec. 2023. 



For disturbing 

a school . 

lb.. Sec. 2629. 



For introduc- 
ing obscene 
prints and lit- 
erature into. 
lb. , Sec. 2620. 



For obscenity 
ou school 
buildings 
lb. , Sec. 2621 



Sec. 122. Whoever willfully interrupts or disturbs any 
school * * shall be punished by imprisonment not exceed- 
ing thirty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 

Sec. 123. Whoever imports, prints, publishes, sells or -dis- 
tributes any book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other 
things containing obscene language, or any obscene prints, fig- 
ures, pictures or descriptions manifestly tending to the corrup- 
tion of the morals of youth, or introduces into any * * 
school or place of education, or buys, procures, receives, or has 
in his .possession any such book, pamphlet, ballad, printed pa- 
per or other thing, either for the purpose of sale, exhibition^ 
loan or circulation, or with the intent to introduce the same 
into any * * school, or place of education, shall be pun- 
ished by imprisonment in the State prison not exceeding ffve 
years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine 
not exceeding one hundred doUai's. 

Sec. 124. Whoever willfuUy cuts, paints, pastes or defaces 
by writing or in any other manner any school building, furni- 
ture, apparatus, appliance, outbuilding, ground, fence, tree, 
post or other school property, with obscene word, image or 
device, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding fif- 



SCHOOL LAWS. 4H 

teen <lays, or by fine not exceeilinsi; one hiiixlred <]olIars. This 1899. 
secti'.)n shall not apply to any pupil in and subject to the <iis- ' 

cipline.of the school. 

Sec. I'iT). Whoever willfully an<l maliciously, oi- wantonly 
and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars or injures * * 
an}' school house, * * or otl)er building erected or use<i for k,,,- injuriut; 
the purpose of education, * * or for the general diffusion j^''"?', I^o^i^si 
of knowledge, or any of the outbuildings, fences, walls, or ap- 
purtenances, of such school house, * * or other building, 
or any furniture, apparatus or other property belonging to or 
connected with such school house, * * or other building, 
shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or 
by fine not exceeding live hundred dollars. 

Sec. 126. No Superintendent or School Board of any county, 
or any person officially connected with the government or di- 
rection of the public schools, or teacher thereof, shall receive ce'r/being i?*' 
any private fee, gratuity, donation or compensation, in any terested in 
manner whatsoever, for promoting the sale or the exchange texi'^boo'k'*. 
of any school book, map or chart in any public school, or be 
an agent for the sale, or the publisher of any school text-book, 
or be directly or indirectly pecuniarily interested in the intro- 
duction of any such text-book; and any such agenc}^ or inter- 
est shall disqualify any person so acting or interested from to b.> dobirred 
holding any school office whatsoever, and shall be deemed a ^rnm holding 
ipisderaeanor, and upon conviction the party so offending shall ib. ,sec.'2G0. 
be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned 
not less than thirty days. 

Skc. 127. Any Superintendent or School Jioard of any 
connty, or any person officially connected with the govern- 
ment or direction of a public school, or teacher thereof, who ^n'ed'^otMined 
violates the provisions of Section 7 [126 above], shall be pun- ib,,273t). 
ished by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by tine 
not exceeding fifty dollars. 

Sec. 128. Any Superintendent, county or State, violating 
the provisions of this Act, [Chapter 4192, concerning exami- For vioiatinsr 
nation and certification of teachers] upon conviction shall be if^J^! '^^'^™"^*~ 
fined not less that fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, flo^^'^' ^^^^p* 
and shall be debarred fiom holding any school office in this 
State. 

Skc. 129. Member.-? of Boards of Public Instruction, County For failing to 

Superintendents of Public Instruction, and Treasurers of ^^n reports.'^** 

county school funds, who shall fail or refuse to perform any ^^'V^-./'-^^^p- 
of the duties required of them by the provisions of this Act, 



44 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



|r,1899. 



Beneficiary 

scholars. 

R. S. , Sec 311. 



Board of Visi- 
tors. 



To report. 
Ib.,?ec. ;512. 



[Chapter 4332, concerning making and publishing reports] 
shall for such neglect of duty be subject and liable to suspen- 
sion and removal from office by the Governor, under the pro- 
visions of Section 15, of Article IV^, ot the Constitution. 

EAST AND WEST FLORIDA SEMINARIES. 

Sec. 130. Each county in this State east or west of the Su- 
wannee river shall be entitled to send to said Seminary in the 
division in which such county is located, as many scholars or 
beneficiaries as it may have Representatives in the House of 
Representatives of Florida, who shall receive all the benefits 
of instruction of said Seminary free of all charge. 

Sec. 131. At least once in each year each Seminary shall be 
visited by three suitable persons — not members of the Board 
or Seminary — to be appointed by the Board [of Trustees], 
who shall examine thoroughly into the affairs of the Semi- 
nary, and report to the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction their views with regard to its condition, success and 
usefulness, and any other matters they may judge expedient. 
Such visitors shall be appointed annually. 



FLORIDA NORMAL 



SCHOOL AND 
STITUTE. 



BUSINESS IN- 



■students ad- 
mitted free of 
tuition. 
Abbr. Sec. 2. 
Chap. 3869. 
May .W.ISSO. 



Bach county 
entitled to one 
student for 
each memlTcr 
of the Assem- 
bly. 



Sec. 13'2. * * One white student, male or female, from 
each Senatorial District in the State shall be admitted to all 
the rights and privileges of the Literary and Classical De- 
partments of the * -* Florida Normall School and Busi- 
ness Institute, free .of tuition; Provided^ That appointments 
to scholarships to the Florida Normal School and Business In- 
stitute shall be made by Senators of the various Senatorial 
Districts of the State of Florida. 

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 

Sec. 133. * * Each count}^ shall be entitled to send an- 
nually, or so often as vacancies may occur, oae student for 
each member of the Assembly from that county; such student 
shall be selected by the Boards of Public Instruction of the 
several counties from among the most advanced pupils in the 
common and higher schools therein who may present them- 
selves as candidates. Each County Board of Public Instruc- 
tion shall annually, or as often as vacancies occur which should 
be filled by the county, give early notice of such vacancy, and 
of the time and place of meeting for the examination of the 
candidates. The County Board shall then and there, by 



SCHOOr. F.AWS. 



4r> 



themselves, or with the assistance of such persons as they may 
appoint, examine said candidates, and select those best quali- 
fied as to scholastic attainments, good health and upright 
moral character, and furnish them with certiticates of selection 
for admission, subject to the re-exaraination and ap})roval of 
the faculty of the college. In case any [County] Hoard of In- 
struction fails to attend to the above duty, then pupils holding 
high rank in their schools in that county may make applica- 
tion in person to the faculty of the college and be examined 
and admitted on the same terms as they would have been 
had they passed a preliminary examination before the | County] 
Board of Instruction of their county. But in case such vacan- 
cies remained unfilled, students may be selected from the State 
at large by the facult}'. 

Sj5C. 134. Each Senator, during his term of office, sh'^U be 
empowered to nominate one stuilent, who shall be a resident 
of his Senatorial District, to said State Agricultural College, 
who shall be entitled to receive the benefit of a full course of 
instruction at said college without any charge for tuition, sub- 
ject to such rules and regulations as may be established for 
the government and direction of said college.* 

Sec. 135. The trustees shall make an annual report to the 
Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the first day 
of October, to be by him printed with his report and laid be- 
fore the Legislature at the beginning of each regular session. 
Such report shall give a full exposition of the financial condi- 
tion of the corporation, the progress and improvements made, 
the nature, cost and results of experiments, and such other 
matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, 
as may be supposed useful; one copy of which the Superin- 
tendent shall transmit by mail to each of the other colleges 
which were endowed under the provisions of the act of Con- 
gress of July 2, 1862; also a copj^ to the Secretary of the In- 
terior, and one to each house of Congress. 



1899^ 

Selected by the 
County Board 
of Public In- 
struction by 
examination. 



May make ap- 
plication to the 
Faculty. 
Abbr, Sec. 294. 
K. S. 



Stite Senators 
to nominate 
one student. 
Tb., Sec. 295. 



Trustees to re- 
port to Super- 
intendent of 
Public instruc- 
tion . 
Tb. ,Soc. 297. 



*.\oTE. -The Colli'j^c now admits all who apply free of tuitioti. 



APPENDIX. 



Some of The Session Laws of 1893. 



Chapter 4192. 

AN ACT to Pi'f'scrihe Rales and Regulations for Licensing Tt-achers; 
to Provide for Uniform Examinations; to Stcure Fairness in Ex- 
aminations and in Issuing Teachers' Certificates, and for Other 
Purposes. 

He it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Skction 1. No person shall be permitted to teach in the 
public schools of the State who does not hold a teacher's 
certificate, granted in accordance with the provisions of this 
Act. 

Sec. 2. There shall be five grades of certificates issued as 
herein specified, and named respectively, to-wit: Third grade, 
second grade, first grade. State, and life, certificates. 

Sec. 3. No certificate, except life certificates, shall be issued 
except on written examinatioii, or written and oral examina- 
tions, as provided in this Act. 

Sec. 4. Any applicant for a certificate of any grade, before 
being eligible for examination, shall present to the examiner a 
written endorsement of good moral character from a respon- 
sible person, and shall pay an examination fee of one dollar, 
which fund shall be applied as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 5. An applicant for a third grade certificate shall be 
examined in orthograph}', reading, arithmetic, English gram- 
mar, composition, penmanship. United States history, geogra- 
ph}', physiology, and theory and practice of teaching, and 
must make an average grade on the above named branches of 
sixty (GO) per cent., with a grade in no branch below forty (40) 
per cent. The examination in reading shall be both oral and 
written. A third grade certificate shall be good for the period 
of one year from date of issue, and no person shall be per- 
mitted to teach longer than one year under a third grade cer- 
tificate. 



Who to teach 

schools. 



Certificates, 
how graded, 



Good charac- 
ter. 



Qualifications 
for third 
Grade Certifi- 
cates. 



48 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



For Secouci 
Grade. 



For Krst 
Gracie. 



State Certiti- 
cates, how Is- 
sued. 



Average 
Grade. 



Life Certifi- 
cates, who en- 
titled to. 



Mode of exam- 
ination. 



Skc. ti. ,4 second grade certificate shall be issued on exam- 
ination in the branches a,s prescribed for a third grade certifi- 
cate. An average grade of seventy-five (75) per cent., shaO 
be required, with the grade in no branch below fifty (50) per 
cent., which certificate shall be good two years from date of 
issiie. No teacher shall be granted more than two second 
grade certificates. 

Sec. 7. An applicant for a first grade certificate shall b«^^ 
examined in civil government, book-keeping, algebra, and 
physical geography, in addition to the branches required for a. 
third grade certificate. An appellant for a first grade certifi- 
cate must make an average grade of eighty (80) per cent., 
and shall grade in no branch beiow^ sixty (60) per cent. A first 
grade certificate shall be good for three years from date of ititv 
issue. 

Sec. 8. A State certificate shall be issued only by the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction to persons holding a 
first grade certificate and who have taught at least twenty- 
four (24) months (eight months of which must have been 
taught in this State successfully under a first grade certificate). 
The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall issue no State 
certificate, except on written examination in the following 
branches in addition to those required for a first grade certifi- 
cate: Geometry, trigonometry, physics, zoology, botany, Latin, 
rhetoric, English literature, mental science and general history. 
A candidate for State certificate must make an average grade 
on the prescribed branches of eighty-five (85) per cent., with 
the grade io no branch below sixty (§0) per cent. A State 
certificate shall be good for five years from date of issue. 

Sec. 9. Any teacher holding a State certificate issued under 
this Act, and who has taught successfully in a high school in 
this State for the period of thirty (30) months, may be granted 
a life certificate by the State Superintendent, without further 
examination, if endorsed by three persons holding State cer- 
tificates as possessing eminent teaching ability and as having 
been eminently successfully in governing and conducting a 
school. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the State Superin- 
tendent from granting special life certificates to eminently 
successful kindergarten or primary teachers, who have taught 
three years in thiis State, go©d only in that department of 
schools. 

Sec. 10. Candidates for third, second, or first grade certifi- 
cates shall be examined by the County Superintendent of 
Public Instruction on questions prepared in all cases by the 



SCHOOL LAW8. 



49 



State Su{)«*riiiten<]erit of Public Instruction. The questions 1899. 
shall he sent sealed to the (/Ounty Superinteinleiits of the va- 
rious counties, which seals shall not be broken until the morn- 
ing ot the (lay on which the questions for that da^' are to be 
used, and then only in the presence of the persons assembled 
for examination. Any person or persons who shall be found 
guilty of securing or attempting to secure the prepared ques- 
tions, or who shall furnish the prepared questions to an}' 
teacher or other person in any other way than prescribed by 
this Act, shall be debarred f(-om teaching a school or fro?n 
holding any school office in this State, "^rhe candidates for 
certificates shall ask no questions, nor receive assistance from 
any source durmg the examination. In case any examinee 
may be in doubt as lo the meaning of any question, he or shjd 
may state in writing the point in doubt and answer accord- 
ingly, which answer shall receive due consideration in grading 
the papers. 

Sec. 11. All examination papers shall be prepared in the 
presence of the County Superintendent or his appointed as- 
sistant, who shall collect the questions and answers on each 
branch as completed, and said examiner shall accept no paper 
of any examinee containing a name or mark which would in- 
dicate to any other than the examiner its author. Said exam- 
iner shall himself, on collecting each paper, designate it by a 
number known only to himself, and shall keep a record by 
number and by name of the author of each examination paper. 
Every examinee shall complete and hand in the answers on 
each branch before the questions on any other branch shall b". 
given out. When eveiy examinee has completed all the 
branches, the examiner shall arrange and bundle together all 
the papers of each examinee, and shall deliver the whole to a 
grading committee. 

Sec. 12. The County Board of Public Instruction, prior to 
any authorized examination, sh\ll appoint three teachers hold- 
ing the highest grade certificates among the teachers of the 
county as a grading committee; said committee shall, imme- 
diately after the close of any examination, carefully examine 
and grade, agreeably to instructions sent out by the State 
Superintendent, each paper turned over to it by the County 
Superintendent. When the said committee shall have com- 
pleted its work it shall deliver back to the County Superin- Duties »fsucb 
tendent all papers turned over to it, with a gradation sheet committee, j 
showing the shade of each examinee in each branch upon 
which he or she was examined, ^Iso the average grade and 
rank of each examine*. The County Superintendent shall 



wIk) to pr.'puit- 
examiuatioLi 
pa per.s . 



G-nidias Com 
uiiitee. 



50 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Where exami- 
nation papers 
to be filed. 



To keep secret 
names ol Com- 
mittee. 



Fees. 



Extent of Cer- 
tifieates . 



First Grade 
Certificates to 
toe endorsed. 



Kevocation of 
Certificate. 



then, for the first time, make known to the grading committee 
the name corresponding to the number of any examinee, and 
shall then in the presence of said committee present his list 
and write on said gradation sheet the name of each examinee 
after his or her proper number. Tne said grading committee 
shall retain one copy of said gradation sheet and shall file one 
with the County Superintendent, who shall issue certificates 
to the examinees making averages according to the provisions 
of Sections 5, 6 and 7 of this Act, and to no others. 

Sec. 13. All examination questions and answers prepared 
by the applicants for certificates shall be filed in the office of 
the County Superintendent and properly preserved for at least 
one year, and in case any candidate is dissatisfied with the 
grading of his or her papers, he or she may authorize the 
County Superintendent to have his or her answers, with the 
questions, published in any newspaper the examinee may 
designate. 

Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction, before every public examination, to appoint a 
grading committee, and to keep secret the names of persons 
comprising said committee until its work is performed. 

Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of the County Board to pay 
the members of the grading committee two dollars a day and 
five cents a mile each way one trip for the actual distance 
traveled and for the time necessary to perform their work. In 
estimating a day, ten hours' actual service shall be counted a 
day, and not more than five days shall be allowed for the com- 
pletion of the grading of all the papers after any examination. 
The grading committee shall be paid out of the fund created 
by the examination fees, and the balance of said funds shall be 
kept by the County Board and be applied to employing lec- 
turers and to defraying the expenses of Teachers' Institutes in 
the county. 

Sec 16. Third and second grade certificates shall be good 
only in the county in which they are issued. 

Sec. 17. Any first grade certificate may be endorsed by the 

County Superintendent of any county in the State, and then 
will become good for its unexpired time in the county in which 

it is endorsed, as well as in the one in which it was issued. 

State and life certificates granted in accordance with this Act 

shall be good throughout the State for the periods for which 

they are granted. 

Sec. 18. A certificate of any grade may be revoked by the 

authority issuing it, when the holder proves to be unsuccessful, 

incompetent, or is proven guilty of any gross immorality. A 



.SCIIOOI. LAWS. 51 

tirst grade cei tiKcate may be revoked for any of the aV)Ove 1S99. 



reasons by a County Superintenflent endorsing it. 

Sec. 19. There sliall be held two examinations a year in 
each county in tlie State, beginning on Tuesday after the tirst ,p^^.^_ examimi- 
Monday in Miy and September, and each may continue one tious. 
•or more days at the discretion of tlie examiner and a vote of 
the examinees; Proi'ided^ That only one examination niay be 
held in any county, if two be found unnecessary. 

Sec. 20. The State Superintendent, for sufficient cause, may wueutoire 
order examinations held on days other than those prescribed 
b}' Section 19 of this Act. 

Sek. "21. Any Superintendent, county or State, violating the 
iprovisions of this act, upon conviction shall be fined not less Peuaity. 
than fifty nor more tlr.in one hundred dollars, and shall be de- 
barred from holding any school office in this State. 

Skc. •I'l. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act ^|,. ^^.3^, 
are hereby repealed. 

Skc. -Jo. This Act shall take effect after .lanuary 1st, ISOl. 

Approved Jun- -S, 189:5. 



CllM'TER 4193. 

A\ ACT to Provide for the Election of Members of County Boards 
of Public Instruction, an(J to Fix their Compensation. 

Ji<; It Enacted hi/ the Legidature of tJie St<ite (f Florida: 

Sectio.v 1. That at the next general election, and every two 
Vfars thereafter, there shall be elected in each county in this OfKf^ty'sciioai 
State a County Board of Public Instruction, hereinafter men- F.oams. 
tioned as the County School Board, consisting of three mem- 
bers, whose terms of office shall begin the first Tuesday after 
the first Monday in January after such election, and termi- 
nate upon the ((ualitication of their successors two years there- 
after. 

Sec. 2. At the first meeting in July, 1894, the County Ijoard 
<jf Public Instruction m each county shall divide their respect- ^ . 

, , , IT- i Duties of 

ive counties into three county school board districts so as to countj' Boards 
place in each district, as nearly as practicable, the same num- *tr['iet^o^.'"' 
ber of qualified voters, the lines of said districts being so 
drawn as to place each election district wholly within one or 
another of said county school board districts; and the mem- 
bers of the County School lioard shall file in the office of the 
Clerk of the Circuit Court for such county a certificate of 



52 



SCHOO]. LAWS. 



1899. 



Boundaries of 
Districts. 



Election hj 
Pc'hcol Diir- 
tricts. 



FilliBj 

cies . 



Fees . 



EepeaL 



their said action, contaiiiincr a d(Scri])tioii of the boundaries; 
of said districts, and naming the election districts comprising 
each county school board district, which certificate sliall be 
published in a newspaper published in the county, or if there 
be no newsj)aper published in the county, then by posting at 
the county court house door for four weeks thereafter. The 
County School Board may thereafter change the boundaries- 
of any such districts at a meeting in July of the year of a 
general election, but such change shall be certified in the 
Clerk's ofiice and published as required for fixing such districts 
in the first instance. 

Sec. 3. The members of the County School Board shall be 
elected one from each county school board district by the 
qualified electors of such district. 

Sec. 4. All vacancies on said Board shall be filled for the 
unexpired term by appointment by the State Board of Educa- 
tion on the nomination of the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction. 

Sec. 6. The members of the County School Board shall be 
paid from the county school fund for their services, two dol- 
lars per day for each day's service, and not exceeding five 
cents per mile for traveling expenses. All traveling expenses, 
before being paid, shall be itemized and approved by the 
Board. 

Sec. 6. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed in so far as they conflict with this Act. 
Approved June 2, 1893. 



Election to , 
form School 
Sub-Dibtricts. 



GUAPTER 4194. 

AN ACT to Provide for School Sub-Districts in Counties and Towns, 
and to Provide for the Levying and Collection of Taxes tor the 
Support of Schools in such Sub-Districts. 

Be it JEnacted hy the Legislaturt of the State of Florida: 

Section 1, That an election may be held under the order 
and direction of the Board of Public Instruction of any county, 
if they shall deem it advisable, in any election district, or in- 
corporated city or town of such county, upon the petition of 
one-fourth of the registered and qualified voters thereof, who- 
are taxpayers on real or personal property therein, and have 
paid all taxes due by them for two years next preceding the 
presentation of such petition, to determine whether such elec- 
tion district, city or town, shall be a school sub-district. Any 



SCIIOOJ. J,A\VS. 



53 



Mode of elec- 
tion. 



QiialiCieations 
lor voters, 



1 lutv of Trus- 
tees ; 



such (.'k'ctioii sliall be liel'l, and the result asecrt;urieil and de- 1899. 
dared as nearly as practicable in the same manner, as is pro- 
vided by law for the holdinsji; of elections concernintf Article 
XIX of the Constitution, sul)stitutin_t>; the lioard of Public In- 
struction for the County Cornnussiuners. It shaU require a 
majority of the votes of those voting at any such election to 
determine any matter in the affirmative. If such sub-district 
is created, three school trustees shall be elected therein, upon 
a day to be fixed by the Board of Public Instruction, and on 
the same day bi ennially thereafter. 

Skc. 2. All voters in such election for sub-districts or trus- 
tees shall have the qualilications specified in section one for 
petitioners for electioiis to establish sub-districts. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of these trustees, on or before 
the last Monday in June of each year, to prepare an itemized 
estimate, showing the amount of money required for the nec- 
essary common school purposes of their sub-district for the 
next ensuing scholastic year; stating the rate ot millage to be 
assessed and. collected upon the taxable property of their sub- 
district to cover such amount, not to exceed three mills on the 
dollar, A copy of the itemized estimate herein provided for 
shall be hied with the Clerk of the J^oard of County Com- 
missioners, which Board shall direct the Assessor of Taxes to 
assess, and the Collector to collect the amount so stated. 
Moneys collected under provisions of this. Act shall be paid 
over to the trustees of the sub-districts in which the tax is 
levied. 

Sec. 4. These trus.tees shall, under the direction of the Board 
of Public Instruction, supervise each school in their district, 
and see that the teachers perform their work promptly and 
enei-geticall}'^, and that the general work, discipline and moral 
of the school is satisfactory^, and rei)ort to the Board of Pul>lic 
Instruction at their regular monthly meetings. 

Sec. 5. They shall also be a corporation with the usual 
powers for the purpose of performing their duties. 

Sec. 6. They shall receive and hold the money which may 
be assessed and collected as hereinbefore provided, as a special ^ 

tax to be disbursed in the district where collected solely for Powers. 
school purposes, such as building school houses, furnishing the 
same, repairing, heating and cleansing, and when necessary 
paying any legitimate delicit due the teachers. I'hese trustees 
shall be required to give bond in twice the amount raised by 
the special tax, to be approved by the County Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction before receiving any such money. 



Further duties 
of Trustees. 



Ti5 be corpo- 
rate. 



54 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Mode of abol- 
i shins. 



Repeal. 



Sko. 7. Any sub-district may be abolished by like proceed- 
ings as those above provideii for its establisliment. The 
boundaries of such sub-district shall coincide with the bound- 
aries of the election di-trict, excepting that if a portion of an 
election district being in an incorporated city or town shall be 
included in a sub-district composed of such city or town, the 
remainder of such election district not included in such city 
or town may become a school sub-district in the same manner 
as though it were an entire election distiict. 

Sec. 8. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 9. That this Act shall take effect from and after its 
passage and approval by the Governor. 

Approved June 2, 189:3. 



What to con- 
stitute school 
flay. 



Chapter 4195. 

AN ACT to Amend Section 255 of the Revised Statutes of the State 
of Florida, and to Define and Declare What Number of Hours 
Shall Comprise a School Day. 

Beit EiiacUd by tJiC Legislature of the State of ' Florida: 

Section 1. That Section 255, Revised Statutes of the State 
of Florida, be amended so as to read as follows: 

255. School Dx\y, Month, Tekm and Yeae. — First. A 
school day shall comprise not less than five (5) and not more 
than six (6) hours, exclusive of recesses. The time to be fixed 
by the Board of Public Instruction of each county. Second. 
A school month contains twenty days, exclusive of the first 
and last days of the week. Third. A school term contains 
four school ;nonths. Fourth. A school year contains two 
terms. 

Approved June 6, 1893. 



Beginning of 
school year. 



Chapter 4196. 

AN ACT to Deiine a School Year, and to Provide for the Opening 
and Closing of School Terms. 

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That, beginning with July 1st, A. D. 189-3, the 
school year for all pubhc schools shall begin on the first day of 
July and end with the last day of the following June; and 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



Time of open- 
ing schools. 



that all reports, tinancial and otherwise, to the State Depart- 1899. 

ment shall embrace such business and matters only as take 
place within the limits of the school year thus defined. 

Sec. 2. The time for the opening of the ]iublic schools for 
each county shall be determined l>y the Cbunty Hoard of Pub- 
lic Instruction; Prorhlcd^ 'J'hat all schools must begin so as 
to close before the last day of June. 

Skc. 3. Any public school in the county failing to complete 
its public term before the terminus of the school year, shall Forfeit of 
forfeit the proportion of its tinancial apportionment not used ™oneys. 
by neglecting or failing to maintain a school for the full term 
of school in that county, and in that case all moneys so for- 
feited shall be apportioned among the several schools of the 
county at the next annual apportionment. 

Skc. 4. No school in any countj'^ shall begin before July first 
of the school year to which that term of school belongs and 
for which the apportionment is made. 

Sec, 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act 
are hereby repealed. 

Approved June 2, 1893. 



No school to 
begin befoie 
.Jvily Ifet. 



l^ESOI.UTION No. 3. 

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing pn \mendment to the 
Constitution of the State of Florida. 

Jit' it Resoloed by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

That the following amendment to the Constitution of the 
State of Florida be, and the same is hereby agreed to, and ^'^Ic v'^fn 
shall be submitted to the electors of the State at the gene- xii, ofthe' 
ral election in October, A. D. 1994, for ratification or rejec- <'0"^titution. 
tion: 

Section 7, of Article 12, of the Constitution is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Section 7. Provision shall be made by law for the appor- 
tionment and distribution of the interest on the State School 
Fund and all other means provided, including the special tax of 'st^hooi'^'"^" 
for the support and maintenance of public free schools, i*'""'!- 
among the several counties of the State in proportion to the 
average attendance upon schools in the said counties respect- 
ively. 
Approved June '•?, 18*1:5. 




SCHOOL LAWS. 

SESSION LAWS OF 1895. 



Applicant for 
Third Grartf 
Certificate. 



Amendment 
fc'coond Grai'e. 



AmeudraoiU 
First Grade. 



State Ceititi- 
cate. 



CHAPTER 4331— [No. 10.] 

AN ACT to Amend Sections .5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13. 16, 17 and 19, of Chap- 
ter 4192, of the Laws of Florida, the same bein? '-An Act Entitled 
an Act to Prescribe Rules and Regulations for Licensing Teachers, 
to Provide for Uniform Examinations: to Secure Fairness in Ex- 
aminations and in Issuing Teachers' Certificates and for Other 
Purposes." 

Be it JE)uicted by the I^e<jislat>ire of the fState <\f Florida: 

Section 1. That Section 5, of Chapter 4192, of tlie Laws of 
Florida be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 
An applicant for a third grade certificate shall be examined in 
orthograph}^, reading, arithmetic, English graramer, composi- 
tion, United States history, geography, physiology and theory 
and practice of teaching, and must make an average giade in 
the above named branches of sixt}'^ (60) percent, with a grade 
in no branch below forty (40) percent. The examination in 
reading shall be both oral and written. 

Sec. 2. That Section 6, of Chapter 4192, of tlie Laws of 
P'iorida be, and the same is liereby amended to lead as fol- 
lows: A second grade certificate shall be issued on exami- 
nation in the branches as prescribed for a third grade certifi- 
cate. An average grade of seventy-five (75) per cent, shall 
be required, with a grade in no branch below fifty (50) per 
cent. 

Sec. o. That Section 7, of Chapter 4192, of the Laws of 
Floi'ida be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 
An applicant for a first grade certificate shall be examined i» 
civil government, algebra and phj^sical geography, in addition 
to the branches required for a third grade certificate. An ap- 
plicant for a first grade certificate must make an average grade 
of eighty (80) per cent, and shall grade in no branch below 
sixty (60) per cent. 

Sec. 4. That Section 8, of Chapter 4192, of the Laws of 
Florida be, and the same is hereby amended to read as fol- 
lows: A State certificate shall be issued only by the State 
Superintendent of Public Listruction to persons holding a first 
grade certificate and who have taught at least twenty-four 
(24) months, (eight months of which must have been taught 
in this State successfully under a first grade certificate). The 



cate. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 57 

^>upeiiiiterKk'iit of Pu\)iic rnstruction shall issue no State (ter- 1899. 

titicate t-xcepl on written examination in the followintr 
branches: (Geometry, trieconometry, physics, zoology, botany, 
Latin, rhetoric, Eiiijjlish hterature, mental science, and general 
history. A f-andidate for a State certificate must make an 
average grade on the prescribed branches of eighty-hre (85) 
per cent., with the grade in no branch below sixty (tjl)) per 
•cent. 

Skc. ;■). That Section 9, of Chapter 4192, of the Laws of 
Floritla, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 
Any teacher holding a State certificate issued under this Act, Lue aMtifi 
and such of Chapter 419-i of the Laws of Florida as are not 
hereby repealed, and who has taught successfully in a high 
^school i)i this State for the period of thirty (oO) months, may 
be granted a lite certificate by the State Superintemlent with- 
4rnit further examination, if endorsed by three persons holding 
State certificates as possessing eminent teaching ability, and 
as having been eminently successful in governing and conduct- 
ing a school. 

Sec. G. That Section 12, of Chapter 411)2, of the Laws of 

Florida, be and the same is hereby amended to read as fol- 

ilaws: Tlie Conntv Board of Public Instruction, prior to any ^iii'iiiii; Conv 

• * ■ .11 - , .1 , L 1 ij" ' imtU'«r. 

autiionzed examuiatmn, shall appoint three teachers hoiamg 

the highest grade certilicate among the teachers of the county 
as a grading committee: said committee shall, immediately 
after the close of any examination, carefully examine and 
grade each paper turned over to it by the County Su|>eriii- 
tendent. When the said committee shall have comjjleteil its 
work it shall deliver back to the County Superintendent ail 
papers turned over to it, with a gradation sheet showing the 
grade of each examinee in each branch upon which he or she 
was examined, also the average grade and rank of each exam- 
inee. The County Superintendent sball then, for the first time, 
make known to the grading committee the names correspond- 
ing to the number of any examinee, and shall then, in the 
presence of said committee, present his list and write on said 
gradation sheet the name of each exanunee after his or her 
proper number. The said grading committee shall retain one 
copy of said gradation sheet, and shall tile one with the County 
Superintendent, who shall issue certificates to the examinees, 
making averages according to the provisions of Sections 1, 2 
and 3 of this Act, and to no others. 

Sec. 7. That section lb, of Chapter 4192, of the Laws of Third orade 
Florida, be and the same is hereby amended to read as fol- Certificates. 
lows: Third grade certificates shall be good ordy m the 
<!Ounty in which they are issued. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



gecond Grade 
Certificates, 
where good. 



Examinations. 



Proviso, 



Time Certifi- 
cates are good , 



One examina- 
tion at county 
seat. 



Wlio entitled 
to benefits. 



Diplomas of 
Graduation. 



Sbc. 8. That Section 17, of Chapter 4192, of the laws of 
Florida, be and tke same is hereby amended to read as fol- 
lows: First and second grade certiricates may be indorsed by 
the County Superintendent of any county in the State, and 
shall then be good in the county in which it is endorsed an 
well as the one in which it was issued. 

Sec. 9. That Section 19, of Chapter 4192, of the Laws of 
Florida, be and the same is hereby amended to read as fol- 
lows: There shall be held two examinations a' year in each 
county in the State, beginning on Tuesday after the first Mon- 
day in June and September, and each may continue one or 
more days at the discretion of the examiner and a vote of the 
examinees; Provided^ That only one examination may be held 
in any county if two be found unnecessary; Provided^ fur thei\ 
That County Superintendents may hold a special examination^ 
and issiie temporary certificates for a term of not longer than 
the interval between the regular examinations, providied the 
applicant for such certificate furnishes satisfactory reasons for 
having failed to attend the regular examination. 

Sec. 10. a third grade certificate shall be good for two- 
years from date of issue. A second grade certificate shall be 
good for three years from, date of issue, and a first grade cer- 
tificate shall be good for four years from date of issue. And 
all certificates granted in accordance with the provisions of 
this Act, and such of Chapter 4192 of the Laws of Florida as- 
are not hereby repealed, shall oe .re-issuable upon examina- 
tion. 

Sec. 11. That at least one of the examinations of teacher.* 
shall be held at the county seat of the county in which the ex- 
amination is held; Procided, That where two examinations are 
held the County Board of Public Instruction may designate 
another convenient jDlace for holding one of such examinations 
other than the county site. 

Sec. 12. That all persons holding certificates granted in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of Chapter 4192 of the Laws of 
Florida, shall be entitled to all the benefits and governed by- 
the provisions of this Act. 

Sec. 13. That any person holding a diploma of graduation 
from either of the State Normal Colleges of this State, upon 
presentation of said diploma to any County Superintendent 
in this State, shall be entitled to a first grade certificate with- 
out examination; Pronded^ The person holding such diploma 
applies for such certificates within one year from the granting 
of such diploma. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 

Siic. 14. All laws and parts of laws iu conflict witli tliis .Act 
are lieiel)y repealed. 

Sec. 15. This act shall take effect upon its passa;4e ami ap- 
proval by the (lovernor. 

Approved June -i. 1895. 



59 
1899. 



t'lIAl'TEK 4832.— [No. 11.] 

AN ACT Requirina: the Boards of Public Instruction for the Several 
Counties of this State and Treasurers of County School Funds, to 
n)ake and Publish Itemized Financial Statements of their Dealings 
with County School Funds. 

lie it EiincUd Jxj the Le(/ii<h(tt(re of the State of Fiorida: 

Skctiox 1. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the 
school fund of each county in this State by the first Monday 
in each and eA^ery month, to prepare and file with the County Dutyof Treas- 
Superintendent of Public Instruction of his county, a detailed "'"er of sehoo 

1--1 • ■• !• Ill" llllll. 

and Itemized statement in writing, showing all sums of money 
received by such treasurer during the month next preceding, 
and from whom and from what source received, and all 
amounts b}' him paid out during such time and to whom paid, 
and describing b}' date, number and amount of all warrants 
paid. 

Skp. 2. It shall be the duty of the Boards of Public Instruc- 
tion of the several counties of this State to prepare and file Duty of 
with the Clerks of the Circuit Court of their counties, respee- p°b[S{f]°[. 
tively, by the first Monday in August, A. D. 1895, a detailed stmctiou. 
and itemized financial statement in writing showing all sums 
of raone}- received on account of county school funds for and 
during the year next preceding, and from whom received, and 
from what source dei'ived. And all amounts paid out during 
such year, to whom and on what account paid. What funds, 
if any, are on hand, and what ind(!btedness, if any is out- 
standing. Such statement shall be certified b}- the treasurer 
of the county school fund and attested by the County Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction, and in all counties where a 
newspaper exists, the Board of Public Instruction shall cause 
said statement to be published; Provided, The cost of such 
publication shall not exceed ten dollars to be paid out of the 
county school fund. Otherwise they shall have the same 
posted at the court house and at three other public places in 
the county. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of each and every Board of To lUe itemized 
Public Instruction of the several counties of this State to pre- j'^^^^i^iai state- 
pare and file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of their re- 



Proviso. 



60 SCHOOL LAWS. 

1899. spective counties by the first Tuesday after the first Monday 
in September, A. D. 1895, and by the corresponding Tuesday 
in each and everj'^ month thereafter, an itemized financial 
statement showing all sums of money received during the 
month next preceding, on account of county school funds, and 
from whom received, and from what source derived. All ap- 
pi'opriations made by such board and for w^hat purpose made. 
All warrants drawn by such board, in whose favor and for and 
on what account drawn, describing such warrant b}'- date, num- 
ber and amount. All such monthly financial statements shall 
be certified by the Chairman of the Board of Public Instruc- 
tion for the county and attested hy the County Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction, and the said board shall without 
delay causf the same to be pnblished in a newspaper of the 
county, when any such newspaper exists; Pt-ocided^ The coat 
of such monthly publication shall not exceed two dollars per 
month, otherwise the}^ shall post the same at the court house 
and at three other public places in the county. 

Sec. 4. The financial statements of account liereinbefore 

provided for, when filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 

Oerk"^'^'^ ^^'^'^ shall be securely kept by him and shall at all times be open to 

the examination and inspection of the people of the county 

without fee or charge. 

Sec. o. Members of Boards of Public Instruction, County 
Superintendents of Public Instruction, and treasurers of county 
school funds who shall fail or refuse to perform any of the 
duties i-equireii of them by the provisions of this act, shall for; 
such neglect of duty be subject and liable to suspension and 
removal from office by the Governor under the provisions of 
Section 15, of Article 4, of the Constitution. 

Sec. 6. This action shall take effect from the date of its ap- 
proval by the Governor. 

Approved Maj' 30, 1895'. 



Fen alt V. 



Chapter 4333— [No. 12.] 

AN ACr to Authorize and Require the County Board of Public Iq- 
struction of Monroe County to have the Englisli Language Taught 
m San Carlos Public School. 

Be it Enncted by the Legidature of the State of Florida: 

Sectiox 1. The County Board of Pubtic Instruction of 
Monroe county are hereby authorized and required to employ 
a competent teacher to instruct the Cuban pupils of the San 



^^CIIOOl. LAWS. 61 

Carlos School, in llie City of Key West, in the elements of 1899. 
the English language. 

Sec. 2. The said Hoard of Public Instruction shall make 
provision for the payment of the salary of teachers so em- 
ployed, out of the common school fund of said Monroe 
county. 

Sec. o. This a(^t shall take effect from and after its passage 
and approval by the (xovernor. 

Approved May :>1, 1S!>.-). 



CiiAi'TKK 4SH4— [No. ];].] 

AN ACT to Establish at Bartow. Florida. The South Florida MiU- 
tary and EJucati inal lastituie, and to Provide an Appropriatioa 
therefor. 

Ji<^ it K)i(i<t<'il hij tlie /.('(/istatiire f)/' the Sftitdnf F'/ or it/a: 

Skc'iion 1. The South Florida ALiiitary and Educational In- 
stitute is hereby established at Bartow, Polk county, Florida, 
under the direction and control of the State Hoard of Educa- 
tion, who shall elect such faculty as uvav be requircl to carry 
out the provisions of this act. 

Skc. 2. The design of this institution is to teach such 
branches of learning, including military tactics, as may be re- '^'^•'' S'^ 
quired by the State Board of Education. 

Se( . :>. Each Senator, during his term of ofHce, shall be em- 
powered to nominate, upon competitive examination, one stu- 
dent, who shall be a resident of his Senatorial District, to said nom^'iallMu- 
South Florida Military and Educational Institute, who shall fit^'^ts. 
be entitled to receive the benefit of a full course of instruc- 
tion at said Institute without any charge for board, lodging, 
tuition, use of text-books, washing, fuel, lights and use of arms 
and equipments. Said students to be subject to such rules 
and regulations as may be established for the govern nient and 
direction of said Institute. 

Sec. 4. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions 
of this act the sum of sixty-four hundred dollars ($6,400.00) ^,,p,.onria- 
be, and the same is hereby apportioned for each two ensuing tion. 
years, commencing September 1, 1S95, out of any moneys in 
the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Skc. 5. That this act shall take effect upon its approval by 
tVte (governor. 

Approved M ly 2!), ]89j. 



C-' . SCHOOL LAWS. 

1,8^9- . Chapekr 4B35— [No. 14.] 

AN ACT to Prohibit White and Negro Youth from being Taught in 
the Same Schools. 

Be it Enaated by the Legidature of tJie ^tate of Florida: 

Section 1. It shall be a penal offense for any individual, 
body of individuals, corporation or association to conduct 
within this State any school of any grade, public, private or 
parochial wherein white persons and negroes shall be instructed 
or boarded within the same building, or taught in the same 
class, or at the same time by the same teacher. 

Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of 
P^^u.^ity. Section 1 of this Act, by patronizing or teaching in such school 

shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum not less than 
1150.00 nor more than $500.00, or imprisoned in the county 
jail for not less than three months nor more than six months 
for every such offense. 

Sec. 3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict w^ith the pro- 
visions of this act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect September 1st, 1895. 
Approved May 29, 1895. 



Chapter 4336— [No. 15.] 

AN ACT to Provide for the Division of Counties into Convenient 
School Sub-Districts, and for the Election Bi-enniaily of Three 
School Trustees, and for the Levying and Collectija of a District 
School Tax, and Providing for the Holding of Elections for such 
Purposes. 

-Be it Enacted Inj the Legidaiare of the /State of Idorida: 

Section 1. That an election may be held in any city, town^ 
community, section or division of any county, under the order 
and direction of the Board* of Public Instruction of any 
county upon the petition of one-fourth of the registered and 
qualified voters of any such city, town, community, section or 
division of such county, who are tax-payers on real or personal 
property therein, to d^etermine whether such city, town, com- 
munity, section or division of such county, shall be a school 
sub- district, and for the election of three trustees therefor^ 
and to determine the raillage to be assessed and collected 
annuall}'- during the succeeding two years. Such election 
shall be held and the result ascertained and declared as 
nearly as practicable in the same manner as is provided by 
law for the holding of elections concerning Article 



JSC'HOOf. LAWS. G3 

XIX of the C'onsUlution, substituting tlie J->i);ir(l of Piihiic In- 1899. 

structioji for the County Conimis.sioiiers. It shall require a ,^,^;^,j.itv of 
majoritv of the votes of those voting at any such election to tiioso votiu;^ 
determine any matter in the attirmative. At an election to '^"i"""'' • 
decide whether such sub-district shall be formed three school 
trustees shall be elected to serve as such, should a majority of 
the electors vote for and create such sub-district, and on the 
same day bi-ennially thereafter, and at each of such elections 
the millage to be assessed and collected annually during the 
succeeding two years for school pui-poses in such sub-district 
shall be determined by a majority vote of the qualiHed elec- 
tors as herein provided. Notice of holding any such election 
to determine whether such city, town, corumunity, section or 
other division of such county, shall be made a school sub- 
district, or for the election of school trustees, shall bo made by 
the Board of Public Instruction by publishing a notice in a 
newspaper published in such city, town, community, section 
or other division of such county to be made a school sub-dis- 
trict, for four consecutive weeks; Prorkled^ That the cost of 
such publication shall be paid by the school sub-districts re „ 

•^ .'-.''... ,,., Proviso. 

speclivel}^, or .by posting such notice in three public places, 
Avithin the limits of such city, town, comtnunity, section or 
other division to be made a sub-district, for thirty days })rior 
thereto. 

Skc. '1. Ail voters in such election for sub-districts or trus- 
tees shall have the qualifications specitied in section one for Qualification. 
petitioners for elections to establish sub-districts. 

Sec. 3. The petition mentioned in section one of this Act 
shall fix and detine the boundary of the city, town and adja- Q^juudary. 
cent territory, community, section or other division intended 
to be made and formed into a school sub-district, which bound- 
ary shall include but one public school, except in incorporated 
towns. 

Sec. a. It shall be the duty of the trustees on or before the 
last Monday in July of each year to prepare an itemized esti- 
mate, showing the amount of money required for necessary ^^^^^ °^ '^'^^^ 
common school purpose of their sub-district for the next en- 
suing scholastic year; stating the rate of millage to be assessed 
and collected upon the taxable property of their sub-district 
to cover such amount, not to exceed three mills on the dollar. 
A copy of the intemized estimate herein provided for shall be 
filed with the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, 
which Board shall dir-ect the Assessor of Taxes to assess, and 
the Collector to collect, the amount so stated. Moneys col- 
lected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid over to ^jj,*\ey"^°'^ °^ 
the trustees of the sub-district in which the tax is levied. 



64 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Object 



A corporation. 



Trustees to 
give bond. 



Skc 5. The object of a school sub-di>trict shall be to pro- 
mote the school interest of the district, when formed, by the 
collectioji and judicious appropriation of a special scliool tax. 

Skc. 6. They shall also be a corporation with the usual 
powers for the purpose of performing their duties. 

Sec. 7. The}^ shall receive and hold the money which may 
be assessed and collected as hereinbefore provided as a special 
tax, to be disbursed in the district where collected, solely for 
school purposes. These trustees shall be required to give bond 
in twice the amount raised by the special tax, to be approved 
by the Board of Public Instruction before receiving any such 
mone^^ 

Sec. 8. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed. 

Sec. 9. This act shall take effect upon its approval by the 
Governor. 

Approved May 20, 1895. 



Duty of Tnis - 
tees. 



Chaptek 4337— [No 16.] 

AN ACT to Amencl'Section 3 Chapter 4194, Laws of Florida, Enti- 
tled an Act to Provide for School Sub-Districts in Counties and 
Towns, and to Provide for the Levying and Collection of Taxes 
for the Support of Schools in such Sub-Districts, Approved June 
2, 1893. 

Be it Enacted by tJie Leg isUi tare of the State of Florida: 

Section" 1. That Section 3 of Chapter 4194 be amended so 
as to read ag follows: 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of these trustees on or before 
the last Monday in June of each year to prepare an itemized 
estimate, showing the amount of money required for the nec- 
essary common school purposes of their sub-district for the 
next ensuing scholastic year; stating the rate of millage to be 
assessed and collected upon the taxable property of their sub- 
district to cover such amount, not to exceed three mills on the 
dollar. A copy of the itemized estimate herein provided for 
shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board of County Commis- 
sioners and the Comptroller of the State, and it shall become 
the duty of the Comptroller to assess all railroads and railroad 
property situated in such school sub-district upon the filing 
with him by the County Commissioners a copy of the amount 
to be assessed by the County Commissioners, and the Corap- 



SCHOOL LAWS. 

troller shiill follect the ainoiiiit so assesijifd by ihe County 
Commissioners in such sub-district and pay over the same to 
the trustees of such sub-district. 

Sec. 2. All laws in conflict with this amendment aie heieby 
lepealed. 

Approved June 1, 1^)95. 




CiiAi>TEK 4a6li— [Nu. 4L] 

AN ACT to Amend Sctions 272, 273. 274 of the Revised Statutes of 
Florida, Relaiive to the Powers and Duties of the Board of Man- 
agers of State Bhnd. Deaf and Mute Institute. 

Jie it Kiuivttd bt/ the Ltujixhitare of t/w State of Floriiht: 

Skction 1. That Section 272 of the Revised Statutes of 
P'lorida be amended to read as follows: 

Section 272. Said Board of Managers shall provide fur the 
education, care and maintenance at said asvlum of all persons Duty Bourci 

. ,. •' 1 • o 1 .1 L- "■ • 1 ■ of Maiuigfrs. 

residing m this State between the ages of eix and twenty-one 
years, who may be blind, or deaf and dumb. 

Sec. 2. That Section 278 of the Revised Statutes of the 
State of Florida be amended to read as follows: 

Section 273. Any person entitled to admission into said In- 
stitute, or the parent, guardian or next friend of such person, 
may apply to the Board of County Commissioners of the County Com- 
county of his residence, and the County Commissioners, it L^sue certifi- 
satished that the person is so entitled to such admission, shall ^'^te to aL.m,t 
issue a certificate to that effect, upon which the applicant shall 
be received into the asylum. 

Sec. 3. That Section 274 of the Revised Statutes of the 
State of Florida be amended to read as follows: 

Section 274. Said Board of County Commissioners shall 
suppl}^ means of transportation of such persons to said asy- 
lum, and at tiie close of each session the Boaid of Managers tlou"^^"'^''^' 
shall supply means of transportation for the inmates to their 
respective homes and return at the .opening of the next suc- 
ceeding session. The same to be paid for out of the general 
appropriation for the maintenance of said asylum; those who 
have the means will be required to pay the necessary expenses, 
tuition excepted, of their children or wards. 

Sec. 4. All laws or parts of laws in conflict lierewith are 
hereby repealed. 




SCHOOJ. LAWS. 

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passasje and ap- 
proval by the Governor. 

Appi-v^ved May 31, 1895. 



ELECTION OF COUNTY BOAKDS OF rUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Extract from the General Election Law, being Chapter 4o28, 
Laws of P^lorida, approved June 1st, 1895. 

Section 3. * * * A County Board of Public Instruc- 
tion consisting of three members, one member from each 
School Board District elected from the several counties at 
large of this State, shall be chosen at the general election A. 
J). 1896, and at every general election thereafter, unless 
changed by law. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 
SESSION J.AWS OF iSOT. 



67 
1899. 



CiiAi'TKi; '4f)0G— [No. 'J'^.] 

AN ACT to Provide for Teachers' Summer Schools, and to Make 
Appropriations Therefor. 

Whereas, Tlie value of the public schools must be meis- 
ured by the character of tlie teachers employed; and 

Whereas, Teachers' Summer Schools have been recognized 
in all the States as one of the most potent means of improv- 
ing the work of those engaged in teaching, by awakening- 
greater interest and enthusiasm in their work and in improv- 
ing their scholarship and suggesting the best inethoils of in- 
struction; and 

Whereas, The Trustees of the Peab'ody Fund have deemed 
mone}' expended in the direction of improving the teaching- 
force as the wisest disposition of their trust in distributing its 
benefits to all the children, and have demanded that the Legis- 
lature make an appropriation to supplement their donation for 
this particular branch of scliool work; therefore 

I^e it Enacted bij the .Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Skctiox 1. That the sum of three thousand dollars for 
the year of 1897, and three thousand doUai-s for the year 1898, 
be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of 
holding as many Teachers' Summer Schools at such limes 
and places as the State Superintendent of Fublic Instruction 
ma}^ designate, and as the fund appropriated and donated by 
the Peabody Trustees will sustain. 

Sec. 2. That impartial provision shall be made for the in- 
struction of teachers of both races in these Summer Schools 
for the period of two months, and the suras appropriated in 
the foregoing section shall be subject to the order of the 
State Snpermtendent of Public Instruction, and paid upon 
requisition of said Superintendent upon the Comptroller, out 
of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropri- 
ated. . 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction to submit a report to the next General 
Assembly, showing where and the number of such Summer 
Schools ('(iiiducted, the number of teachers attending each by 



p. e limbic. 



Appropriation. 



Appropriation 
subject to or- 
der of State 
Superintend- 
ent of Public 
Instruction. 



Duty of State 
Superintend- 
ent of Fublic 
Instruction. 



68 SCHOOL LAWS. 

1899. sex and race, the number of ooiiductors of each school, the 
number of days service rendered by each, and submit vouch- 
ers for every dollar of the fund paid out. 

Sec. 4. Any laws in coni^ict with this act is repealed by this 
act. 



Salary and 
•aaileage of 
aaembersof 
County School 
■Boards. aS 



Ch.vptku. 456(- — [No. 53.] 

AN ACT to Amend Section 5, of Chapter 4193, Laws of Florida, 
Being an Act Fixing the Salaries and Mileage of the County 
Scliool Boards. 

He it Enacted hij the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Sectiox \. That Section 5 of Chapter 4193, Laws of P^'lor- 
ida, be amended to read as follows: 

The members of the various County School Boards shall be 
paid from the county school fund for their services, two dol- 
lars per day, for each days service, and ten cents per mile for 
every mile actually traveled in going to and from the county 
court house by the nearest practical route. 

Sec. 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this 
act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
Approved June 4, 1897, 



Maimer of 

•selecting stu- 
dent for free 
itirition.etc. 



Chapter 4568— [No. 54.] 

AN ACT to Amend Spctions 3 and 4, Chapter 4334, Laws of Florida, 
Entitled an Act to Establish at Bartow, Florida, The South Florida 
Military and Educational Institute and to Provide and Appropri- 
ate Therefor, Approved May 39, 1895. 

JBe it Enacted hij the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That Section 3 of Chapter forty-three hundred 
and thirty-four be amended so as to read as follows: 

Sections. The Representatives from each county in con- 
nection with the Senator representing said county shall be 
empowered to name upon competitive examination and in 
such manner as the State Board of Education may prescribe, 
one student for each county who shall be resident in said 
county to the said South Florida Military and Educational 
Institute who shall be entitled to receive the benefit of a full 
course of instruction at said Institute without charge for 



SCHOOL LAWS. 69 

board, lo<lging, tuition, use of text books, washing, fuel, 1899. 
lights and use of arms and equipments. Said student to be 
subject to such rules and regulations as may be established 
for the government and direction of said institution. 

Skc. '2. That Section 4 of Chapter forty-three hundred and 
thirty- four be amended so as to read as follows*: 

Sec. 4. That for the purpose of carrying out the provis- 
ions of this act the sum of nine thousand dollars ($9,000) Apprapriatiou. 
be and the same is hereby appropriated for each of the two 
ensuing years commencing September 1, LS97, out of any 
moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Sec. 3. All laws and parts of law in conflict with these 
amendments are hereby repealed. 

A PI roved June 1, 1897. 




SCHOOL LAWS. 

SESSION LAWS OF J 899. 



School uuit. 
School District. 



Special tax 
Schools. 



Board of Pub- 
lic Instruction 
to order elec- 
tion . 



Special Tax 
Scliool Dis- 
trict. 



Matters to be 
determined by 
election. 



Trustees ppeC' 
ial tax school 
.district. 



Proviso . 



Chaptbk 4678— [No. 17.] 

AN ACT to Provide for the Division of Counties into School Dis- 
tricts, and for the Election Bi-enniaily of three School Trustees. 
and to Prescribe their Duties and Powers, and for Levying, Col- 
lecting and Disbursing District School Taxes. 

J3e it Enaoied hy the Z,egislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That each county shall coiisiitute a school unit; 
that all sub-divisions of a county for school purposes shall be 
designated as school districts; all school districts levying a 
school district tax shall hereafter be designated as special tax 
school districts, and all schools receiving any district tax, a» 
special tax schools. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Public Instruc- 
tion of any county to order an election to be held in any sub- 
division of any city or incorporated town, community or sub- 
division of the county, at such time and place as said Board 
may direct, whenever one-fourth of the qualified electors that 
pay a tax on real or personal property, and are resident in 
such city, incorporated town, community, or sub-division of the 
county, shall petition for such election, to determine whether 
such cit}'', incorporated town, community or sub-division of 
the county shall become a special tax school district for the 
purpose of levying and collecting a district school tax for the 
exclusive use of public free schools within the district; at such 
election the following matters shall be determined by a ma- 
jority of tlie ballots cast by electors qualified as herein pre- 
scribed, except that the three persons receiving the highest 
vote at such election shall be declared School Trustees of said 
district: First, whether the city, incorporated town, commu- 
nity or sub- division of the county shall become a special tax 
school district; Second, who shall be the School Trustees of 
said district; Third, the number of mills of district tax to be 
levied and collected annually for the two succeeding years. 
The three persons receiving the highest number of votes cast 
shall be declared the Trustees elected tor the special tax school 
district; provided, a majority of all the yotes cast be in favor 
of creating such special tax district, who shall serve for the 
next ensuing two years and pei-form the duties hereinafter 
prescribed. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 71 

Sec. 8. TIk' petition uieMitioiK'd above in this act shall pre- . 1899. 
scribe the bouiidaiies of the sub-division of any city, or city, 
incorporated town, conmiunitv or sub-division of th** county wiiat ))etitioa 

', -, , ,. , • -1 1 IT- nil nuist i)rescribe. 

inten<led to be formed into a special tax school district. J he 
l)oard of I'ublic Instruction may, lion'ever, change the 
l)Oundaries thereof before ordering any such election; but 
shall in no case include territory not inclutled in original peti- 
tion, and shall give notice of any such change in tlie iu)l,ice of 
election. Special ta.v school districts created under this act, 
shall continue until dis-established or changed by like proceed- 
ing as those by which they were created. The petition pro- 
vided for by Section 2 of this act shall be published once a peuuon'''''' '^^ 
week, for four (4) successive weeks, in some newspaper pub- 
lished in the county having a general circulation throughout 
the county; and the publication shall state when such petition 
shall be presented to such IJoards. In case there shall be no 
newspaper publisbed in the count}', such petition and notice 
.shall be posted in the manner provided in Section 4 of this 
act for the posting of notice of election. 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of tlie Board of I'liblic Instruc- 
tion of the county to cause a notice of said election to be pub- xotice of eiec- 
lished once a week for four successive weeks prior thereto in tjou to be pub- 
a newspapei- published within tlie county, and having a gen- 
-eral circulation throughout the county; but if no newspaper 
be published in said county, then it shall cause five written or 
printed notices of said electi^"*!) to be posted in five jtublic 
places within the territory in which the election is ordered. It 
shall also be the duty of the County Board of Public Instruc- inspectors and 
tion to appoint inspectors and clerks for said election, whose 
<luties shall be the same as those of similar officers in general 
elections, except as herein stated. 

Skc. 5. The Board of Public Instruction shall canvass the 
returns of election as made to it by the inspectors and clerks canvass of re- 
ef election, and declai-e the results at the next regular meet- turns. 
ing of said Board, or at a special meeting called for that pur- 
pose. 

Sec. 6. All special tax school district elections shall be 
held and conducted in the manner prescribed by law for hold- 
ing general elections, except as provided in this act, and it is 
hereby made the duty of the Supervisor of Registration of iVoMrn|eU;c- 
an}'- county to furnish, upon payment for such service, to t^wi^- 
the County Board of Public Instruction, on demand, a certi- 
fied list of the qualified voters residing in a special tax school 
district, or the territory to be created into a special tax ichool 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Who entitled 
to vote. 



County Board 
of Public In- 
struction to 
pay expenses 
of election. 



Ele<'1i)n to l>e 

held 

hi enniallv. 



Trustees have 
Bupervisioii of 
public schools. 



Trustees to 
perform duties 
of .Supervisor . 



Removal of 
Trustees. 



Schools to be 
under control 
of County 
Board of Pub- 
Instruction 
and County 
Superimend- 
ent. 

Proviso. 



district, that have paid a tax on I'eal or personal property for 
the year next preceding any such special tax election. 

Sec. 7. All qualified voters resiciing within the territory 
soaght to be made a special tax school district that pay a tax 
on real or personal property shall be entitled to vote in 
said election, and a majority of the votes cast shall deter- 
mine any matter voted upon, pertaining to a special ti^x 
school district. The cost of the publication of the notice of 
such election, and of the election itself, shall be paid by the 
County Board of Public Instruction out of the first moneys- 
collected from the special tax district. 

Sec. 8. Elections shall be held bi-ennially in each special 
tax school district, as near as practicable upon the anniver- 
sary of the original election, under the direction of the 
County Boftrd of Public Instruction, to determine M^ho shall 
be Trustees for the succeeding two j^ears, and the number of 
mills of district school tax to be levied for each of said years;, 
said elections shall be held under the same rules and resfu- 
lations, and qualifications of electors shall be the same as 
prescribed for those voting in the original election creating a 
special tax school district. 

Sec. 9. Whenever a special tax school district is created 
and Trustees are elected, they shall have the supervision of all 
the pubhc s'^hools within said district. The position of Su- 
pervisor shall be superseded by that of Trustees, and the- 
duties prescribed by law for Supervisors shall be performed 
by the Trustees. The powers of Trustees shall not be those 
of control, but of supervision only, and shall extend to all 
the public schools within the special district. Any Trus- 
tee failing to discharge the duties of the position shall be 
removed, after due notice to such Trustee, by the County 
Board of Public Instruction, and all vacancies occurring in 
the Board of Trustees from any cause, shall be filled for the 
unexpired term by the County Bourd of Public Instruction,, 
upon nomination by the patrons of the school. 

Sec. 10. All public schools conducted within a special 
tax school district shall be under the direction and control of 
the County Board of Public Instruction and County Super- 
intendent as in other districts, and subject to the same laws, 
rules and regulations prescribed for the conduct of other 
schools, exce})t that the Trustees shall have the power to 
nominate to the County Board of Public Instruction teachers 
for all schools witliin such special district; Pr(>vided^ That no 
person be nominated for teacher who does not hold a teach 



S( IIOOL LAWS. 73 

er's certiticate iinimjjaire(i by siisf)ension, revocation or limi- 1899. 

tation, or that will not remain in full force for the term 

of scliool, and obtained in compliance with the laws of the pubu^fin!"'^'^ 

State. The County Board of Public Instruction shall have structiou right 
., • , ^ ^ . .* ^ , . ^ , T . , to reject iviiv 

the rigiit to reject any teacher nominated, and m case the teacher. 
second nomination of a teacher for any position be not rati- 
fied, the said Board shall then proceed on its own motion, to 
fill vacancies in the teachinej force in any school in the 
special tax school district. 

Sec. 11. The lioard of Trustees shall have the fuither 
right to say what proportion of the school funds raised within powers oi 
the district shall be applied in any year to building, repairs '''"'■*'^'^'^'- 
on buildings, to school libraries, to salaries of teachers, and 
to other educational purposes; Procided, That they shall 
make a fair and equitable distribution of the funds among 
all the schools in the special tax school district, which shall 
be showMi in their itemized estimate. 

Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of these Trustees, on or be- 
fore the first day of June in each year, to prepare an itemized Duty of 
estimate, showing the amount of money necessary and likely '^'^^'ecs. 
to be raised for the supplement of the county school funds 
appropriated to the district for the next ensuing scholastic 
year, and to certify therein the rate of millage voted to be 
assessed and collected upon the taxable })roperty -within the 
special tax school district for that year. This estimate shall 
set forth clearl^^ the apportionment of money raised within 
the district pro rated to each school within the district, stat- 
ing the amount that will be applied to the salaries of teachers, 
buildings, furniture or for other educational })urposes. It 
shall also state the number of miles of railroad track and 
telegraph lines within the bounds of the district. This item- 
ized estimate shall be made in triplicate, one copy 
to be tiled with the Clerk of the Board of County 
Commissioners, one copy with the Comptroller of the 
State, one copy with the County Board of Public 
Instruction; Pro^nded^ That where there are no railroad 
or telegraph lines in such district such itemized estimate need 
not be furnished to the Comptroller. It shall be the duty 
of the County Commissioners to order the Assessor to assess, 
and the Collector to collect the amount legally assessed upon DutyofCouiUi 
the property of the special district, at the rate or millage ers. 
designated by the Board of Trustees, and paj^ the same to 
the County Treasurer; it shall be the duty of the C-omptroller 
of the State to assess all railroads and railroad property, to- troiicr^^ ^™**" 
gether with telegraph lines and telegraph property situated in 



74 



SCtlOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Duty 01 
County Board 
of Public In- 
struction . 



County Treas- 
urer liable for 
special tax. 



Special tax 
fund. 



Trustees to be 
a corporatioli. 



Proviso. 



such school special district, and to collect the taxes thereon 
in the same manner as required by law to assess and collect 
said taxes for State and count}^ purposes, and to remit the 
same to the Treasurer of the counties, to be bv them held to 
the credit of each special tax school district fund and to be 
paid out as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the 
County Board of Public Instruction to add the amount set 
apart for the salaries of teachers in each school within the 
special tax school district to the county appropriation made 
for that school, and upon this determine the salaries to be 
paid teachers and the length of the term that the school shall 
continue, and contract with teachers for the full term that said 
fund, arising from both county appropriation and the special 
tax fund, will sustain the school. The part of this fund aris- 
ing from the special tax shall be paid to tlie teachers upon 
the order of the County Board based upon reports approved 
by the Trustees, the same as other school funds are paid upon' 
the endorsement of school Supervisors. The County Treas- 
urer shall be liable for all special tax school district funds 
upon his oflicial bond, after receiving said funds, as in the case 
of other countj^ revenues. 

Sp:c. 13. The special tax fund set apart by the Board of 
Trustees for the payment of teachers shall not be subject to 
requisition for any other purpose by said Trustees; the funds 
estimated for other educational purposes shall be paid out by 
warrants of the Board of Public Instruction of the county 
upon the County Treasurer, said warrants to be based upon 
requisitions made by the Board of Trustees accompanied by 
itemized bills for things purchased or work performed. All 
special funds collected within a school district shall be dis- 
bursed solely for school purposes within the district in which 
collected, and, as near as practicable, in the year in which the 
tax is collected, upon the recommendation of the Board of 
Trustees; Provided., That the Trustees shall make no con- 
tract with one of its members embracing any monetary con- 
sideration. 

Sec. 14. The Trustees of any school district shall be a cor- 
poration and may hold property, sue and be sued, and perform 
other corporate functions, and perform the usual duties neces- 
sary to provide buildings, repair the same, and to purchase 
libraries and other school appliances; Provided, That no debt 
shall be created without the approval of the County Board of 
Public Instruction. 



SCHOOL LAW8. 75 

Sec. 15. Nothing in this act shall have the effect to abro- 1899. 
gate or anywise impair any existing school sub-district, but xot to eiiect 
the same are hereafter to be governed by this act. ^^l*!!"^ school 

Skc. 16. Children residing outside of any special tax school 
district shall not attend school in any such district without siiie oPspe^iai 
tlie consent of the Trustees thei'eof, and of the County Board t'\^ , ,. , . . 

r T-. 1 1- T • r» • J ^ rrii i • - i • KCllOOl illstnct. 

of Public Instruction; l^rovidea, Ihat nothing in this act 
shall be so construed as to prevent attendance from an ad- Proviso. 
joining county, provided the County School Board of such 
adjoining county shall pay a pro rata share ol such attend- 
ance. Such pro rata share to be estimated by the Trustees of 
such school where such attendance is made; Pi-otu'ded farther, 
That pupils from other districts or sub-districts shall be sub- proviso., 
ject to same conditions as i)uj»ils from other counties as pro- 
vided in this act. 

Sec. 17. Each voter voting at any election under this act 
shall vote but one ballot, and the same shall be Avritten, or ■ t- n- 

printed in black ink on plain white paper, and be substantially 
of the following form, according as he may desire to vote 
upon any, or all of the questions submitted: 

For (or Against) Special Tax School District 

School Trustees (Stating their names) 



Maximum Tax Levy: mill^. 

Sec. 18. All laws or j)arts of laws inconsistent with this act 
are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 19. This act shall take effect thirty days aftei- its ])as- 
sage and approval by the Governor. 

Approved June ."), 189l>. 



Chapter 4()79— [No. 18.] 

AN ACT to Amend Section 260, of the Revised Statute.s of the 
State of Florida, entitled '•C^^nsus by Supervisors" and Section 
261. of such Revised Statutes, entitled "Oa Failure of Supervisors, 
Superintendent to Take Cen-ius." 

He it Enacted hy the Le;/!sl<iture of the State of Florida : 

Sectiox 1. That Section 260 of the such Revised Statutes, 
such section being entitled. Census by Supervisor, be and the 
same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 



70 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



County Swper- 
iiitendent to 
tate census. 



Penaltj- for 
failure to por- 
form duty. 



County School 
Board .to hafe 
duties' per- 
formed'on 
failure of 
County Super- 
intendent. 



ii60. Census "by Superintendent. — It shall be the duty of 
the Count}' Superintendent of Public Instruction of each 
county before the 15th day of May in the year 1900, 
and every ten years thereafter, to take the census 
of all children in his county, between the. ages of 
6 and 21 years; and if any such children be idiots, or 
insane, or blind, or deaf mutes he shall so state, and he shall 
report such census to the School Board of the county, and to 
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before 
the first day of June of the year in which such census shall 
be taken. He shall certify to such report as being correct, 
and shall be paid three cents for each child so reported, and 
upon his failing to perform the duties herein required of 
him, he shall be relieved from office. In case he shall employ 
any person or persons to assist in making any such enumera- 
tion of such children, such person or persons shall make a 
sworn statement showing when and where such enumeration 
was made, and that the same is correct, and the same shall 
be filed by the Superintendent with the School Board as 
part of his report. 

Sec. 6. That said Section 261 of said Revised Statutes is 
hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

261. On the Failure of Superintendent, the County School 
Board to Have Census Taken. — In case the County Superin- 
tendent of Schools shall fail to perform any duty imposed 
upon him by the preceding section, as and when the same is 
required to be performed, it shall be the duty of the County 
School Board to cause the same to be done as soon as prac- 
ticable by some person or persons to be selected by such 
Board. 

App'-oved June 5, 1899. 



Uniform sys- 
tem of school 
books. 



Chapter 4G80— [No. 19.] 

AN ACT to Provide for County Adoptions of Uniforraity of Text 
Books in the Public Free Schools of this State. 

Jie it Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida : 

Skctiot 1. It shall be the duty of the County Boards of 
Public Instruction to put in operation in the public free 
schools in their respective counties a uniform system of school 
books; but however, that the adoption of such s^'stem' shall 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



/ i 



be gradual and not sooner made than the interests of the 
j>upils and j)atrons may dictate; Atid Pnkrtded^ That the en- 
tire adoption shall be consummated bj July 1, 1901. 

ISkc. '2. The selection of books to constitute such unifoim 
system in each county shall be made by the County J^oard 
of J^ublic Instruction of the county, who before deciding 
upon any book or books shall consult with the County Super- 
intendent of Public Schools and at least three leading teach- 
ers of the county. J^efore any adoption shall be made at 
least sixty days' previous notice of the time and place such 
adoption will considered published once a week for three 
successive weeks in some newspaper having a general circula- 
tion throughout the county, or in the absence of such news- 
paper to be posted in at least live different and conspicuous 
places in the county shall be given by the School Board; any 
adoption made hereunder shall last at least five vears. The 
County Superintendent shall see that the books adopted are 
used by the pupils and the teachers shall not use any other 
books in teaching. 

Sec. 3. Nothing in this act shall have the effect to inter- 
fere with or impair any entire or partial adoption heretofore 
made and now existing in any county of the State. 

Se(". 4. This act sliall take effect immediately upon its 
approval by the Governor. 

AppiQ-.-ed June 5. ISD!). 



1899. 



Selection of 
books to be 
made l)y 
County 
Boa n Is. 



Notice of uiloi> 
tioa to b(j 
Kiven by 
Scliool iioard. 



Where act 
(loL-4 niit iTiter- 
ferc. 



■ CiiAi'TKK 4081— [Xo. -20.] 

AN ACT to Provide for Teachers' Summer Schools, and to Make 
Appropriations Tiierefor. 

Whereas, Dr. J. L. M. Curr}^, Agent of the Peabody Fund, 
has written the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Prcambie. 
that he "will gladly renew the appropriation for Teachers' 
Summer Schools to the extent of $1200, provided the Legis- 
lature will supplement it hy an equal or greater sum," and 
there is and always will be a large proportion of the teachers 
in the public schools without professional training and j^oorlv 
fitted for the work; therefore, 

Be it Enacted by the Z,e«/lslature of the St((te of Florida: 

Section 1. That the sum of one thousand eight hunndred Appropriation 
dollars for the year 1^99, and one thousand eight hundred ?|°J^^'*'^* ^""^ 
dollars for the year 1900, be, and the same is hereby 



1899. 



Instruction of 
teachers of 
5'joth races. 



IJLity (If State 
Superiutend- 
ont. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 

appropriated for the purpose of conducting as many 
Summer Schools for teachers, at such times and places 
as the State Superintendent of Public instructian 
may deem best, and as the fund appropriated and 
donated by the Peabody Trustees will sustain. And 
the sums appropriated shall be jDaid by the Treasurer on the 
warrant of Comptroller to the teachers of said Summer 
Schools upon vouchers approved by the State Superintendent 
accompanied with a certificate of the County Superintendent 
of the county in which such school has been taught, that the 
service charged for has been rendered, such accounts to be 
audited by the Comptroller before payment. 

Sec. 2. That impartial provision shall be made for the in- 
struction of teachers of both races in "these Summer Schools, 
and the sums appropriated in the foregoing section shall be 
subject to the order of the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, and paid upon requisition of said Superintendent 
upon the Comptroller out of any money in the State Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction to submit a report to the next General 
Assembly showing the number and location of such schools, 
the number of teachers attending each, by sex and race, the 
number of instructors employed in each school, the number 
of daj's' service rendered by each, and submit vouchers for 
for every dollar of the fund paid out. 

Sec. 4. Any laws in conflict with this act are hereby re- 
pealed. 

Approved June 2, 1899. 



Chapter 4682— [No. 2L] 

AN ACT to Authorize the Board of Public Instruction of any 
■ County of the State of Floi-ida to Contract Debts for the Purchase 
of Real Estate to be used for Educational Purposes, for the Erec- 
tion of School Buildings, and to Provide for the Payment Thereof^ 

He it Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida .• 

Sk(;tion 1. That the Board of County Commissioners upon 
the request of the Board of Public Instruction after an af- 
firmative vote of the qualified voters who are tax -payers 



SCHOOL LAWS. 79 

therein and have paid all taxes due by them for two years 1899. 
next and pi-eceding said election in any sub-school district or comity com- 
couiity which debt shall be a charge or lien only upon such missioners nu- 
Bub-schooi district or county as the case may be, are hereby imnhase real 
authorized to contract debts for the purchase of real estate to yor'educaUonaJ 
be used for educational purposes, for the erection of school purposes. 
buildings, and to pa}^ such debts out of the current income of 
any year, or out of the income of succeeding years; J^roolck'd^ 
That the necessary expense of maintaining the schools in any ffoviso. 
county during any year shall constitute the first claim against 
the school fund of that year. 

Sec. 2. That tlie Board of County Commissioners upon the 
request of tlie Board of Public Instruction after an affirma- 
tive vote of the qualified voters who are tax-payers therein 
and have paid all taxes due by them for two years next and 
preceding said election in any sub-school district or county, couuty com- 
which debt shall be a charge or lien only upon such sub-school misMonei-au- 

... , ^ 111 1 • T thonzert to 

district or county as the case may be, are hereby authorized to borrow money. 
borrow money from time to time as occasion may require to 
discharge any debt or liability incurred for the purclaase of 
real estate for educational purposes, for the erection of school 
buildings, and to pay the interest and principal out of the 
current income of any year, or out of the income of succeed- 
ing years; Prodded, That the necessary expense of main- 
taining the schools in any county during any 3'ear shall con- 
stitute the first claim against the school fund of that year. 

Sec. 8. This act shall go into effect immediately upon its 
passage and approval. 

Approved June 1, 189!). 



Chapter 1666 — [Xo,. 5.] 

AN ACT Relating to- the Cf^llection of and Accounting for Poll 
Taxes Collected in this State. 

He it Enacted hy the Le</islatare of the State of Florida : 

Section 1. That from and after the passage of this act it 
shall be the duty of the Tax Collector in every county of this colieVtoJ'"' 
State to file on or before the tenth day of every month with with regard 'o 
the County School Board, a certified list of the names of all ' 
persons whose poll taxes were paid during the previous month, 
giving the year for which such payments were made. A copy 
of this list shall also be filed with the County ComTrJ-- '■^:^'v-' 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



Puty of School 
Board. . 



Penalty. 



Duty of 
County Super- 
intendent. 



Duty of State 
Superinten - 
dent of Public 
Instruction. 



with a receipt from the County Treasurer for the amount col- 
lected as such poll taxes. It shall be the duty of the School 
Board to examine at least twice each year the books and rec- 
ords of the Tax Collector which relate to the collection of poll 
taxes and said Board shall require prompt settlement for all 
poll taxes assessed, together with those not assessed but col- 
lepted. 

Any Tax Collector or member of a County School J>oard 
who shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this act 
shall be suspended from office. 

Seo. 2. It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, acting as Secretary of the County 
School Board, to make and forward monthly a certified copy 
of the monthly lists of persons who have paid their poll 
taxes, mentioned in Section 1 of this act, to the State Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction, who shall file and preserve 
the same in his office as a part of the public records and 
furnish copies thereof when requested by citizens of this 
State. 



Approyed June 2, 1899. 



REGULATIONS AND FORMS 



1'UKS(K1i;ki) uy the 



State Board of Education 

J895. 



Dki'Artmknt oy Public Instruction, 

Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 7, 1895. 
In cuiupliaiico with the provisions of Seclijii 33, para- 
j^raplis 1st and 7th, the following Regulations, Instructions 
and Forms have been prescribed by the State Board ot 
Education for tiie use and guidance of school officers and 
teachers. ( Yide Section 3.) 



REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS. 

GENERAL. • 

Regulation 1. Persons to be eligible to school offices or 
positions most be of good moral character, temperate, up- Eligibility to 

• I . •! 1 . ^ J • i.- 11 ii -Ix school office. 

right, resDonsibie, competent, and in luIl sjmpatliy with 
the public educational system of the State. 

Reg. 2. All Rules and Regulations prescribed by County 
Boards of Public Instruction, not at variance with the ForceofKeg- 
Statutes or the Regulations and Instructions of the State uiations. 
Board of Education, shall have the full force and eflect of 
law, and must be respected accordingly. 

Reg. 3. County school officers and teachers shall in all 
cases use the blanks, forms, registers, etc., prescribed and ^**''° "^^ ^' 
furnished by the State Department. 



82 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



1899. 



To be com- 
missioned by 
State Superin- 
tend eDt. 



To hold regu- 
lar meetings. 



When to issue 
warrants. 



When to con- 
tract With 
teachers. 



To assign 
teachers. 



\Yhen to as- 
si an teachers. 



COUNTY .B0A1U)S OF PUBLIC IIs'STliCCTION. 

llvxi. 4. Members ot County Boards of Public Instruc- 
tion before assuniino- the duties of the office, must be com 
missioned by the State Supei-intendent of Public Instruc- 
tion. The Seci-etary of State, as soon as practicable after 
any general election, shall notify, the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction of the election of School Board mem- 
bers in each county, giving name, kchool Board District, 
and post-otiice addiess of each; and the State Superintend- 
ent, on or before the lirst day of January thereafter, shall 
issue and transmit commissions to said members elect. 

Reg. 5. County Boards of Public Instruction shall hold 
regular meetings, at least monthly, during the session of 
scliools, when they shall examine carefully all teachers' 
reports, issue warrants, hear the I'eport'of tlie County Su- 
perintendent and transact other business. 

Reg. 6. County Boai'ds of Public Instruction shall not 
issue a warrant to any teacher, until the monthly I'eport of 
said teacher, on which the warrant is based, be made out 
in conformity with the blanks furnished, and in compli- 
ance with the directions given in the Teacher's Register. 

Reg. 7. County Boards of Public Instruction shall not 
contract with any person to teach a school who does not 
hold a Teacher's Certificate, unimpaii'cd by suspension, 
revocation or limitation, and granted in accordance with 
laAv. Nor shall any person be entitled to compensation 
from th.e public fund until he has been employed and con- 
tracted with by a Board. 

Reg. S. It is the duty ot County Boards of Public In- 
st^-uction to select, assign and contract with teachers. 
This duty can in no case be delegated to Supervisors or 
patrons; but tlie Supervisor may report to the County 
Board, for its consideration, the names of such teachers as 
he thinks best suited to the requii^ements oi the school and 
most satisfactory to tlie patrons. 

RiiG. 9. County Boards of Public Instruction sliall, at 
the first reguler meeting after the June examination in 
each year, proceed to assign teachers to schools for the 
ensuing scholastic year, selecting tirst from the list of 
teachers those holding State or County Certificates, sala- 
ries ma\ be fixed and contracts entered into at a subse- 
quent meeting. After the September exan)inatioii, all va- 
ctmcies that exist shall be filled in like nianner. 



IIKCJULATIONS AND lOKMS. S8 

Ki'Xi. 10. Tlu! State Board of Education eanict^tly ad- 1899. 
rnoniBiies County Boards of Public Instruction to exercise I '~'. 

.•' , , ., , , , lo avoid t:i- 

j^reat caution in the employ inent oi teaclier^, tliat tliey vontism 
n)ay not subject tlieinselves to the chari>'e of beinu; inllu- 
•enced by personal or political favoritism, sectarianism, or 
by ties of relationship. 

11kg. 11. The State Board of Education calls the special 
attention of County Boards of Public Instruction to the lo prescribe 
<iuty of prcscribinof a uniform course of study for their course of 
schools, and abrading the same, as provided in Sec. 40, Par. ^'"''y 
14tli, of the School Laws, 

Rkg. 12. The State Board of Education reccmmends the 
-adoption by County Boards of a systeiii of Knles and Reg- .,.,, ^..j^^^ ^^j.^ 
illations for their guidance and for the government of and reguia ' 
schools, teachers, and pupils. Such Rules and Regulations, 
together with the prescribed course of study, should be 
printed in pamphlet form and copies ol the same tiled in 
the I'ttice of the State Department. The State Superin- 
tendent shall, upon request, furnish a copy of such pam- 
phlet to other County Boards. 

Rp:(}. 13. The State Board of Education recommends to 
Uounty Boards of Public Instruction the adoption, for 
their several counties, of a regulation for the uniform ob- ^a"!'^'"*^ ^'"' 
servance of she Christmas holidays, suggesting that all 
schools suspend not later than December 24th, and resume 
not earlier than the following 2d day of January. 

Reg. 14. The State Board of Education names the first 
Friday of February of each year as Arbor-Day, which 
shall not be observed as a holiday, but shall be devoted to Arbor Day 
the planting of trees on school grounds or other appropri- 
ate public places, together with suitable exercises, lessons 
or lectures designed to interest and instruct the children 
in the care and cultivation of trees. No teacher should be 
allowed compensation for Arbor-Day, unless a prescribed 
number of trees has been properly planted and securely 
protected against injuiy. 

Reg. 15. County Boards of Public Instruction should 
adopt a regulation requiring pupils from other States, or M*y require 
from other counties, to pay a specified tuition fee to the tuition ft-es. 
teacher, to be by him paid to the County Superintendent, 
and reported by the latter to the County Boaid. 



84 



REGULATIONS AND FORMS. 



1$99. Reg. 16. The attention of County Boards of Public In- 

otruction is called to the fact that the law expressly pro- 
hibits the establisiiing of schools, for the same race, neare*" 
than three' miles of each other, unless niade necessary by 
|ocal geographical features. Where this law has been 
violated in the past, it is the duty of County Boards to 
proceed as speedily as consistent with the interest of all 
concerned, to cotribine two or more schools into one, when 
practicable, or otherwise re arrange them so as to conform 
to the provisions of Sec. 40, Par. 6th, of the School Laws. 

E-EG. 17. County Boards of Public Instruction are di- 
rected and enjoined to sub-divide their respective counties 
into convenient and permanent school districts, for each 
race separately, and to keep a record ot each district by 
uame, by number, and by description of lands contained 
therein (or by boundaries) in order chat specific knowledge 
may be liad as to the metes and bounds of each school dis- 
trict. It shall be the duty of said Boards to furnish each 
Supervisor with a proper description of the territory em- 
braced within his jurisdiction. 

Reg. 18. It shall be the duty of each County Board to 
adopt necessary regulations to resti'ict the attendance of 
pupils to the school within their own district, except as 
the Board may by special permit or by regulation allow 
attendance elsevehere; Provided^ All pupils of the county,. 
■ qualified theretor, may attend the County High School. 

Reg. 19. County Boards of Public Instruction shall not 
enter into contract with any teacher for a term of service 
extending beyond the life of the certificate held by the 
teacher. 

Reg. 20. County Boards of Public Instruction shall 
have the authority to remove any member of a Board of 
Trustees of a special tax school district who fails to dis- 
charge his duty. 

All vacancies in Boards of Trustees shall be filled for the- 
unexpired term by the County Board ot Public Instruc- 
tion upon the nomination of the County Superintendent. 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRCTION. 

When to make I^EG. 21. The Couuty Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

annual report, tiou iu cach county shall, not later than the fifteenth day 

of July of each year, prepare and forward to the State 



To Observe 
3- mile limit. 



May combine 
schools. 



To district 
counties. 



To inform Su- 
pervisors of 
their jurisdic- 
tion. 



To restrict 
school attend- 
ance to proper 
district. 



Not to con- 
tract for a term 
beyond the 
life of a cer- 
tificate. 



To remove 
Trustees and 
appoint 



REGrLATlONS AND FORMS. 



85 



1899. 



Superintendent an Animal Report, in contbnnity with 
blanks and instructions sent out tVuui the State l)epart- 
ment. 

Rkg. 22. The County Superintendent shall give ample 
notice before every county exatnination of the time and 
phice thereof. 

Rkg. 23. In case separate places are necessary to be pro- 
vided for the examination of white and neo^ro teachers, the 
County vSnperintendents are authorized to appoint competent 
assistants to conduct the examinations, but he shall be re- 
sponsible for the official acts of said assistants. 

llEg. 24. County Superintendents are directed to furnish 
the proper blanks, and to see that applicants for examina- 
tion file the necessary endorsement of good moral charac- 
ter, as provided in section 61, before admitting them to the 
examination. 

Rkg. 25. In case a vacancy should occur in the teaching 
force of any school between the regular meetings of the 
Board, the County Superintendent is authorized to fill the 
same, subject to the ratification ot the Board at its next 
regular meeting. 

Sec. 26. County Superintendents shall direct teachers to 
make out monthl}' reports for twenty days, and to instruct how to report 
teachers, in case a legal holiday falls within the month and 
is not taught, to add as the attendance of that day the av- 
erage attendance of the actual number of days taught that 
month. 

sui'p:kvisors and trustkes. 



Notice of ex- 
aminations. 



May apjwint 
assistants. 



To i'i.'i|iiii'e en- 
dorsenient of 
character. 



Wlieu to ap- 
point teachers. 



holidays. 



Reg. 27. School Supervisors shall be governed in the 
general discharge of their duties by the directions and the ""^'* =''o^'<^'""«<^' 
Rules and Regulations of the County Board of Public In- 
struction. 



Reg. 28. The office of Supervisor is not one of control, 
but of oversight only. Schools while in session are under 
the immediate control of the Countj^ Board of Public In- 
struction. But in case of emergency the County Superin- 
tendent may suspend or close a school, subject to the ac- 
tion of the Board at its next meetincr. 



Powers lie- 
fined. 



•156 



REGUI.ATIONS AND FORMS. 



1899^ 

Discretionary 
powers of 
County Super- 
intendent. 



Trustees su- 
persede Super- 
visors . 



Primary du- 
ties oi teach ■ 
•ers . 



Reg. 29. The patrons should reeotnmend to the Oonntj 
Superiiiteiideiit suitable persoiiS for Supervisors (Sec. 40, 
Par. 3d); but the County Superintendent may exercise 
some discretion in nominating such to the Board of Public 
Instruction for appointment (Sec. -tS, Par. 5th). 

Rkg. 30. The position of Supervisor is superseded by a 
Board of Trustees, when a school district becomes a sub- 
district [special tax district] and levies a special tax for 
school purposes. The duties prescribed for Supervisor 
shall then be performed by the Trustees. 



TEACHERS. 



Corporal pun ■ 
ishment. 



Reg. 31. Before beginning a school, a teacher must ex- 
hibit to the County Superintendent a certificate unimpaired 
by suspension, revocation or limitation, enter into a con- 
tract, procure a register and all necessary blanks. He must 
keep his register in accordance with the printed directions 
therein, and must make out his monthly reports in strict 
conformity to the blanks furnished. 

• Reg. 32, Teachers are notified that there is nothing in 
the school laws of the State prohibiting the infliction of 
corporal punishment, when in their judgment it is neces- 
sary; Provided, however, That such punishment shall not 
be unnecessarily severe. 



Prerequisites 
for State Cer- 
tificate . 



For Life Cer- 
■'tificate. 



Teachers 
should ad- 
vance the 
grade of their 
•certificate or 
be dropped 
<out. 



TEACHERS OERTIFICATJES. 

Reg.^33. Apf)licants for examination for State Certifi- 
cates, unless personally known to the State Superintendent, 
must tile written evidence of having taught at least twenty- 
four (24) months under a county First Grade Certificate, 
or its equivalent, eight (8) months of which time must be 
shown to have been taught successfully in the schools of 
this State. 

Reg. 34. Applicants for Life Certificates must present 
endorsements in conformity to law, and in accordance with 
the blanksTurnished by the State Superintendent. 

Reg. 35. "All teachers should of their own purpose seek 
from time to time to advance the class of their certificates 
by diligent and persistent study and the constant reading 
of the best journals of school work, and books treating of 
methods, discipline and government of the school, and so 



KK(U'LATI()\S AND FOHMS. 87 

piiBfi tVoiii the lowest to tiie liiirhest grade of certitieate, 189^. 
and carry with it the increased capacity for the true work of 
the school room, 

Coniitj Superintendents discovering a disposition on the 
part of certain teachers to remain content witli any certifi 
cate tlie}' may be fortunate enough to obtain, exhibiting no 
desire to rise higher or to become better qualified for their 
important work, should at once report the same to the 
Board of Public Instruction and recommend their removal 
from the corps of teachers in the county." — Hon. A. J. 
Russell, Reg. of 1891. 



LIST OF FORMS 

I'KKSCiaHKl) AND LSKI) I X J U K 

Educational Department. 



]S'o. 1 — Notice of Election as Member of Count}' Board 
of Public Instruction. 
'2- Oath of Office of Member of County Board of 

Public Instruction, 
o — Commission pi an Elected Member of County 

Board of Public Instruction. 
4 — Commission of an Appointed Member ot County 

Board of Public Instruction. 
5 — Acceptance of an Appointed Member of County 

Board of Public Instruction. 
— Uemoviuj"; Member of County B«_)ard of Puldic In- 
struction. 
T — Recommending School Supervisor. 
S — Appointment of School Supervisor. 
9— Acceptance of Appointment as School Supervisor, 
10 — Notice of P]lection of School Trustees. 
ll^Com mission of Sc1k»o1 Trustees. 
12 — Acceptance ot School Trustees. 
18 — Endorsement of Applicant for County Examina- 
tion. 
1 -I-— Application for P^xamination for State Certificate. 
l."i — Itecomn)endation for Life (certificate. 
](> — Teacher's Third Grade Certificate. 
17 — -Teacher's Second Grade Certificate. 
18 — Teacher's First Grade Certificate. 
U> — Teacher's State Certificate. 
-lit — Teacher's Life Certificate. 
2i — Teacher's Temporary Certificate. 
ii2 — Suspension (»r Revocati^m of Teacher's Certificate. 
'2o — Award of Board of Public Instruction on Charges 

Acrniust Teacher on Appeal. 
1>4 -Contract with Teacher. 



90 LIST OF FORMS. 

25 — Teaclner's Monthiy Report. 

26 — Teach (M-'s Final Report. 

27 — Notice of Suspension of Pupil Uy Teacher. 

28 — Notice for Special Meeting of Board. 

29 — Warrant on Treasurer of County Board of Public 
Instruction. 

30 — Notifying County Superintendent ot Apportion- 
ment of School Fund. 

31 — Notifying Comptroller Who is Authorized to Re- 
ceive County School Fund. 

32 — Requisition on Comptroller for School Fund Ap- 
portionment, 

33 — Bond ot Trustees. 

34 — Contract for Building School House. 

35 — Deed by Husband and Wife to School Property. 

36 — Itemized Estimate by County Board of Public In- 
struction. 

37 — Itemized Estimate by Trustees. 

38 — Monthly Financial Statement of County Board. 

39 — Annual Report of County Superintendent. 
(Omitted in this Compilation.) 

40 — Teacher's Daily Register. {Omitted). 

^^W° County Superintendents must order these blanks 
by number, slating the numbd of each blank required. 



F^ORA^S. 



No. 1. 

Notice of Kleftion as Mentber of (Jomitij Jtnurtl <>f P>i1>h< 
TnKtriicHon . 

Notice of Elfction. 

Office of \ 

State SiirERiNTENjJENT of Public LvsiRUirriov, ^- 

Tallahassee, Fla., 190 . . ) 

SiK-You have been elected to the office of 

Member of the Couitty Jioard of Ptiblic Inxtrncti,o)i . 

Tf accepted, yoa will subscribe and execute the oath an- 
nexed to the Letter of Acceptance herewith transmitted. The 
oath may be taken before any Judge, Justice of the Peace, 
Clerk of Court, or Notary Public. On receipt of Oath of 
Office, your commission will be forwarded to 3'ou. 
Very i-espectfully, 



Secretary of State Board of Education and State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction. 
To , Esq. 



Every school officer is required, before entering upon the du- 
ties of his office, and within ten days after receiving notice of his 
appointment, to subscribe to an acceptance of the appointment and 
to pledge that he will faithfully perform the duties of the position, 
and to forward the same with his post office address to the State Su- 
perintendent of Public Instruction. — Revised Statutes, Section 332. 



No. ± 



Oath if Office of Member of County Board of Public In- 
struction . 



OATH OF office. 



State of Floimka, * ) 
County of > 

1 do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend 
the Constitution and government of the United States and of 



92 FORMS. 

the State of Florida against all enemies, domestic or foreign, 
and that I will bear true faith, loyalty and allegiance to the 
same, and that I am entitled to hold office under this Consti- 
tution, that T will well and faithfully perform all the duties of 
the office of Member of the Board of Public Instruction, in 
and for the above named county, on which I am now about to 
enter. So help me, God. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this .... day of .... 190 . 



To , Secretary of the State Board of Educa- 
tion: 

I accept the office of member of the Board of Public In- 
struction in and for the county of The above 

is the oath of office taken by me. 

My School Board District is No 

My Postoffice address is 

Yery respectfully, 



No. n. 
Com/It it^sio/t of an Elected Member of County Board of 
Public Instruction. 

DlCrARTMEXT 0¥ PuBr.io LvSTKUCTrOX, \ 
StA'J'E of FLORtOA. C 




In the name and by the authority of the State of Floi'ida: 

Whkkeas, was duly elected on the 

day of . . . , A. D. 190 . . , to be the member of the 



FORMS. m 

County FJoard of Public [nstniction in and for the county of 

, from School Board District No. ..'.., for the 

term of two years from the first Tuesday after the first Mon- 
day in January, A. I). 190. ., and untilhis successor he elected 
and qualified according to Section 3, Chap. 43"28, Laws of 
I^lorida: 

Now, therefore, I, , Superintendent 

of Public Instruction for the State of Florida, under and by 
virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the State, 
and by Regulation No. 4 of the State Board of Education, do 

hereby commission said to be a member of the 

County Board of Public Instruction of county, 

for the District and term aforesaid, to have, hold and exercise 
the said office and all the powers appertaining thereto, and to 
perform the duties and receive the privileges and emoluments 
thereof, in accordance with the requirements of law. 

In testimony whereof I do hereby set my hand and affix the 
seal of the State Board of Education, at Talla- 

[skal] hassee, the Capital, this the .... dav of 

A. I). 190.. 



State Supt. Pub. Inst. 



No. 4. 

Coniinlsslo)t of an Appointed Men) her of Coiint)/ Jioard of 
Pohlir rnstritction . 

Office of ) 

SiATK Board of Educatiox of Fcorioa, ,^ 

Tallahassee, , 190. . ) 

Mr /..., 

, Fla. 

Sir — Vou are hereby appointed by the State Board of Ed- 
ucation of Florida to be a member of the Board of Public 
Instruction for the county of , to fill the unex- 
pired term of , member from school 

Board District No , of county aforesaid. 

If accepted, notice of same must be returned on enclosed 
blank within ten (10) davs after receipt of appointment (Sec. 
9, Par. l.st). 

\vr\ respectfully, 

[skal] , Secretary. 



94 FORMS. 

No. 6. 

Acceptance of an Appointed Member of County Board of 
Public Instruction^ County of 

State of Florida, 
,190. 

To , 

Secretary State Hoard of Education. 

SiB — I have the honor to accept the appointment bj the 
State Board of Education to be a member of the County 

Board of Public Instruction for the county of 

from School Board District No. ... of said county, and here- 
by }»ledge myself to perform faithfully and impartially the du- 
ties of the office. (Sec. 9, Par. Ist.) 

Very respectfully, 



No. 6. 
Hemoiiing Member of County Board of Public Instruction. 

Office op 



State Board of Education of Florida, [- 
Tallahassee, , 190 . . ) 



To 



Sir — For [state reason] you are hereby 

removed from the County Board of Public Instruction for 
county. 

Very respectfully. 



President of Board. 
, Secretary. 



P'OKMS. 95 



No. 7. 
Rerom.>nt^ndin(]l School Supervisor. 



(P. O.) Fla., 
. ... 190. . 



To 



(Jo. Supt. Pub. Instruction. 

Sir — Five days' notice of the time, place and purpose of the 
meeting having been given by the Supervisor, the pairons of 

school No , at met and organized by 

the election of the undersigned as Chairman and Secretary. 

After ballot of the patrons only, it was found that a majority 

favored the appointment of Mr. or Mrs , 

of (P. O.), as Supervisor of said school. 

We hereby endorse as a citizen of good 

moral character, temperate, upright, responsible, possessing a 
fair education, and as one who will perform the duties of the 
<^ffKce impartially and faithfully. 



Chairman. 

Secretary. 



No. 8. 

Appointment of School Supervisor. 

Office of Board of Public iNSTRUcxioisr, 

countv of , 

, Fla., ,190.. 



To 



Sir, or Madam — Having been duly recommended and en- 
dorsed as a suitable person to act as Supervisor of school No. 

. . . . , situated at , at a meeting of the Board 

of Public Instruction held on the .... day of , 190 .. , 

you were appointed accordingly (for four years, or to fill the 
unexpired term of)., or during the faithful performance of the 
duties of the office. 

Blank form of acceptance herewith enclosed must be signed 
and returned within ten (10) days, or the appointment will be 
considered rejected. 

Very respectfully. 



Secretary and County Superintendent. 



96 FORMS. 

No. 9. 

Acceptance of Appointment as ^School Super oiKor. 

, Fi.A., I 

,190.. ^ 

To , 

Sec. and Co. Supt. Pub. List. 

SiK — I hereby accept the appointmeut as School Supervisor 

for School No . . . . , situated at , and pledge 

myself to perform all the duties of the office faithfully and 
impartially. 

Very respectfully, 



No. -10. 

Notice of Election of School Trustees. 

County or , 190 . . > 

State of Florida, ) 

To , 

Co. Slept, and Sec. Board JPuh. Inst. 

Sir — Whereas, At an election, notice of which having 
been given as required by law for four consecutive weeks, 
ordered by the County Board of Public Instruction, and held 

on the day of , A. D. 190 . . , to determine 

whether the territory fully described in a petition presented to 
said Board shall be a special tax school district, and for the 
election of three trustees therefor, and to determine the millage 
to be assessed and collected annually during the succeeding two 
years, a majority of the electors resident in said territory and 
qualified according to Section 7 of Chapter 4678, Laws 
of Florida, did vote to create such special tax school district 
and the district is established; therefore, we, the under- 
signed inspectors of said election, do recommend as en- 
titled to receive commissions as trustees of said special 

tax school district No , and otherwise known as 

school district, the three persons named 

below, because they received the highest number of votes cast 
for trustees at said election. 



FORMS. 



97 



Nam ks. 



l*<>s r-( )kfi'k 



Si<ria'(l.-j y 



Inspectors of 



f Election. 



No. 11. 

(Jormnission of School IVusteen. 

COMMISSION OF TBUSTEE. 

Offick of the Board op Public lNS)'nrcTr<^»v, ^ 

State of Fi.ournA, County ok , - 

, 19"-. ) 



To 



Fla. 



Having been duly elected, on the .... day of ,. 

A. D. 190. ., to be a member of the Board of Trustees in and 

for special tax school district No. ., otherwise known at; 

School District, for the term of two years and 

until your successor is elected and qualiHed according to 
Chapter 4678, Lsws of Florida, you are hereby commissioned 
to act as Trustee for said special tax school district during the 
faithful and valuable performance of the duties which the 
position devolves upon you — not to exceed two years, except 
as provided herein. 

A blank form of acceptance is herewith sn closed, which 
please till out and return within ten (10) days, or the position 
will be declared vacant and tilled by appointment 

By order of the County Board of Public Instruction. 



Sec. and Co. Supt. Pub. Inst. 



98 FORMS. 

No. 12. 

Acceptance of School Trustee. 

County of , > 

(P. O ) ....190.. \ 

To , 

Sec. and Co, Supt. Pub. Inst. 

SiE — I have received your letter of 

enclosing commission of the Board of Public Instruction of 
this county as Trustee of special tax school District No . . . . , 
<;alled School District. 

I hereby accept this position and pledge myself to perform 
its duties impartially and faithfully. 

Very respectfully. 



No. 13. 
Mndorsetnent of Applicant j'or Comity Examination. 



To , ........;... ....,190.. i 

Co. Siipt. Pub, Inst., 

County. 

SiK — This is to certify that I have been personally ac- 

<juainted with the bearer, , for years 

and commend to you as a person of good moral charac- 

a.cter, and addicted to no habits that could unfit or disqualify 

for the position of teacher. 

Very respectfully, 



No. 14. 

Application, for Examination for State Certificate. 

Fla., I 

190.. f 

To , 

State Svpt. of Pub. Inst. 

Sir — I hereby make application for examination for State 



FOJIMS. y^ 



IVrtificate, and enclose herewith testimonials as to mv 
-h-irac-tcr, and to my experience and snccess a« a teacher. 

Very respectfully, 



ApplK.ant must file endorsement from the school ,uthn,.ui 
under w.on. he has taught for the last twcm^^^^^^ 
e.ghtof which must have been i„ the schoolL.f fS 

tw ' r'"""""^ ""^' ''''^^y ^-api^Iicant'sgoodmori; 
^•haracter and success as a teacher. 



No. 16. 
/i>'-u,Hweiuhiifonfor Life Certi/iaafe. 



LA., ) 

90.. {■ 



>Siate Si/pt Pah. Inst. 

S.K-We the undersigned, each of us being a holder of a 

^^r^-^lf^l^l" ^r"-'^"^^ ^^^^ '^^ previous of 
acZa^^ted w7t^ r t^^"^f^^"^ ^eing well and personally 
acquainted with the work and character of o,. i 

haying personally observed methods and" noted ' " " 

success ,n the class room, both in the matter of instruction 
and discipline, .do therefore endorse ^«ln 

to you as a teacher worthy and well qualified in eyery respect 
to receive a 1 eacher's Life Certificate: ^ lespect 

^^ery respectfully, 



100 FORMS. 

No. IS. 

Teacher s Third Grade Certificate, 

Note. — The different grades of Certificates are lithographed and 
issued in books of 100 each, with stubs. Stubs in all cases must be 
filled out ae indicated. 

STATE OF FLORIDA. 

No [seal ok state.] Fok 2 Years. 

Teachee's Certificate— Third Grade. 

To the Board of Public Instruction of County: 

This certifies that having presented 

the requisite endorsement of good moral character^ and hav- 
ing been legally examied and found to possess the qualifica- 
tions for a Third Grade Teacher,, as prescribed in Section 1, 
Chapter 4331, an act to amend Chapter 4192, an act to pro- 
vide for the Uniform Examination of Teachers, is hereby 
authorized to contract with your honorable Board, to teach in 

the public schools of this county, for two 

years from this date. 

Given under my hand this .... day of 190 . . 



Supt. of Pub. Inst Co. 

Standing on examination, scale 100: Orthography....^ 
Reading . . . . , History . . . . , Arithmetic . . . , , English Gram- 
mar . . . . , Geography . . . . , Composition . . . . , Physiology . . . .^ 
Theory and Practice of Teaching . . . . , General Average .... 

N. B. — No candidate can be awarded this certificate who 
fails to make a general average of 60 per cent., or falls in any 
branch below 40 per cent. 

• Form of Stub to Third Grade Certificate. 

No .... Date or issue , 190 , . To 

Sex Race Ao^e .... Home P. O „ 

Certificate expires 

Standing on examination. 

Scale 100. 

(Same as in body of certrfie||i©). 



FORMS. 101 

No. 17. 

Teachers Second Grade Certificate. 

STATE OF FLORIDA. 

No [seal of the state.] For 8 Years, 

I'ea^ueh's Certificate — Second Grade. 

To the Board of Public Instruciion County: 

This certifies that having presented the 

requisite endorsement of good moral character, and having 
been legally examined and found to possess the qualifications 
for a /Second Grade Teacher, as prescribed in Section 2, Chap- 
ter 4:331, an act to amend Chapter 4192, an act to provide for 
Uniform Examination of Teachers, is hereby authorized to 
contract with your honorable Board to teach in the public 

schools of this county, for three years from 

this date. 

Given under my hand this the .... day of 190 . , 



Supt. of Pub. Inst., Co. 

Standing on examination. (Subjects same as for Third 
Grade). Scale 100. 

N. B. — No candidate can be awarded this ceitificate who 
fails to make a general average of 76 per cent., or falls in any 
branch below 50 per cent. 

It may be endorsed by any County Superintendent, and so 
endorsed becomes good for its unexpired term in such county. 
( Vide /Section 8, Chapter 4331). 

Form of Stub for Second Grade Certificate. 

No Date of issue , 190 . . To ... " ' . 

Sex Race Age Home P. O Has taught . . 

months .... Last Certificate was Grade, Issued from 

county, Dated Standing on examination (Same 

as in body of certificate). Scale 100. 



No. 18. 

Teache'/s First Grade Certificate. 

STATE OF FLORIDA. 

No.. [seal OP state.] For Four Years. 

Teacher's Certificate — First Grade. 
To County Boards of Public Instruction, Greeting: 

Be it known that having presented the requisite 



102 FORMS. 

endorsement of good moral character^ and having parsed satis- 
factory examination as prescribed in Sec. 3, Chap. 4331, an 
act to amend Chapter 4192, an act to provide for the Uniform 
Examination of Teachers, is therefore entitled to the rank of 
First Grade Teacher, and is hereby licensed to teach in the 

Public Schools of countv for the term of four 

years from date. 

Given under my hand this the day of , 190 . . 



Supt. of Pub. Inst Co. 

Standing on examination, scale of 100. Orthography . . . ., 
Reading . . . ,, TJ. S. History . . . ., Geography . . . ., English 
Grammar . . . . , Arithmetic . . . . , Composition . . . . , Physiol- 
ogy . . . . , Theory and Practice of Teaching . . . . , Civil Gov- 
ernment . . . ., Algebra . . . ., Physical Geography . . . ., Gen- 
eral Average. 

N. B.-^This certificate may be endorsed upon the reverse 
side by any Count}^ Superintendent, and so endorsed becomes 
good for its unexpired term in such county. Jl.de Sec. 8, 
Chap. 4331. 

(The following will be contained in side stub to this certifi- 
cate). 

No . . , Issued . . . . , 190 . . , To . . . . , Sex . . . . , Race . . . , , Age 
. . . . , Home P. O . . . . , No. months taught . . . . , Grade of last 
Certificate . . . . , Where issued, ....•...., Date of Same . . . . , 

Standing on examination. 

Scale 100. 
. (Same as in body of certificate). 



No. 19. 
Teacher'^s State Certificate. 

STATE OF FLORIDA. 

No . . [seal of state.] For Five Years. 

Teacher's State Cekttficate. 

Office of ) 

Superintendent of Public Instruction, )~ 

Tallahassee, , . . . , 190 . . ) 

To County Boards of Public Instruction: 

Whereas, The bearer has presented evidence to 

show that has taught successfully at least twenty- 



F()RM^^. 108 

four nionthK (fight or more of which in schools of Florida), 
and that is a persoTi of good moral character, pos- 
sessing ability to govern and aptness to teach, and has passed 
satisfactory examination in the branches prescribed in Sec. 4, 
Chap. 4881, an act to amend Chapter 419li, an act to provide 
for the Uniforin Exaniination of Teac/iern is here- 
by licensed to teach in any county in this State, and exempt 
from further examination for five years from date. 

Witness my hand and the Seal of the State Board of Edu- 
cation, this the ... day of . . . . , 190 . . 



State Supt. Pub. Inst. 

Standing on Examination, scale of 100. Geometry , 

Trigonometry . . . . , Physics . . . , Zoology . . . . , Botany , 

Latin , Rhetoric , English Literature , Mental 

Science General Hij^tory . . . . , Average .... 

(The following is the side stub to this certificate). 

State Certificate, No , Date of issue 190 .. , To, 

, Sex . . . . , Race . . . . , Age ..... Home P. O 

Last Certificate was Grade, Issued from 

county. Dated , Standing on examination. 

(Same as in body of Certificate.) 



No. 20. 

Teacher ><■ Life CertifivaU. 

No.. STATE OF FLORIDA. Perpetual. 

Tka(^her's Life [seal of state.] Certificate. 

Alios JJocendo Ih'scimus. 

The eminent (jualifications of as a teacher of 

youth, having been shown b}'^ . . . .distinguished success in the 
schools of this State, and having presented the requisite en- 
dorsements and testimonials as provided by Sec. 5, Chap. 4331, 

Laws of Florida, is therefore awarded this Diploma 

which is of perpetual validitj^ and forever exempts 

from further examination as a teacher in the public schools of 
this State. 

Given under my hand and the Seal of the State Board of 
Education, at the city of Tallahassee, this the . . . day of . . . . 

1 90 . . , 

State Supt. Pub. Inst. 
(Seal State Board of Education). 



104 FORMS, 

No. 21. 

Teacher s Temporary Certificate. 

Office of ^ 

SuPERIJ*fTENDENT OF FuBLIC INSTRUCTION, CoUNTY. >- 

.. . : 190.. ) 

This is to certify, that having placed on 

file in my office evidence of maintaining a good moral char- 
acter, having furnished satisfactory reasons for having failed 
to attend the regular examination, having fairly made the 
grade on each branch recorded below in a special examination 
■conducted by me, and having, in addition thereto, manifested 
considerable knowledge of the art of imparting instruction 
and managing a school, is therefore granted this Teacher's 
Temporary Certificate and is hereby authorized to teach the 

public school No. , at in this county, only 

until the first State examination. 

STANDING IN THE EXAMINATION. 

Orthography Composition .... Theory and Practice 

Reading U. S. History . . .Algebra 

Arithmetic Geography Civil Government 

English Grammar. .Physiology General Average 



Co. Supt. Pub. Its St. 

N. B. — County Superintendents of Public Instruction will 
issue this certificate to no applicant who fails to make the 
fninimum and average grade required for a Third Grade Cer- 
tificate. .■ 



No. 22. 
Sasjyensicn or Bevocation of Teacher's (Jertificate. 

Office of Board of Public Instruction, | 

COUN-TV H)0.. \ 

•To , 

, Fla. 

Dear — It is my unpleasant duty to infortu you 

that certain charges have been preferred against you, on appa- 
rently sufficient "grounds, alleging that (state the charges 
plainly and briefly— see Section 48, Paragraph loth,) in conse- 
quence of which your certificate to teach a public school is 
hereby declared suspended (or revoked, as the case may be,) 



FOliMS. ' 105 

and the. right to teach a public school in this State, as veil as 
the privileges conferred by said certiiicate, are suspende<l (or 
revoked, as the case may require), until further notice. 

The case will be presented to the Board of Public Instruc- 
lion, (or State Superintendent of Public Instruction, if the 
certificate had been issued by him; also state the time and place 
at which a hearing will be granted), at which time you shall 
have an opportunity to make a full and fair vindication of the 
f.harges, in conformity with the regulations of the Depart- 
jnent of T'ublic Instruction. 

Very respectfully, 

Co. Suot. of Pub. Inst. 



No. '2H. 



.iiitai')/ of Brxirdof I'ublic Instruction on (Jhargea Against 
a Teacher on Appeal. 

Office of Boakd of Piip.lk; iNSTuircrioM, ) 

County of , , 1 90 . , J 

To , 

J'ea.'her. 

After a fair and careful examination, on appeal, of the 

■charges preferred against you by , to-wit: 

(recite the charges plainly and briefly), it appears 

to this Board that , (state the conclusion of the 

Board) you are hereby honorably acquitted and continued in 

your position in (or censured and discharged, as 

the case may be) the service of this Board. \onr .salary will 

be continued from the time of your suspension 

•(or will not be continued, in case the suspension is conhrtned 
<n- certificate revoked). 



. . . . , Ciiairman. 

Sec. and Co. Siipt. Pub. Inst. 



.1'06 FORMS. 

:.; ';.- , No. 24, 

Contract with Teacher. 

This contract, by and between . . , Teacher, anci 

the Board of Public Instruction for the count}^ of 

State of Florida, witnesseth: 

That the said agree to teach the Public 

School No .... at . . . , or such other public school 

at the Board may elect, commencing on the day of 

, 190 . . , for the term of months, and 

to perform well and faithfully the duties of teacher, according 
to the laws of the State and the Regulations of the Depart- 
ment of Public Instruction of Florida, and the Rules and 
Regulations of the Board of Public Instruction of ......... 

coxinty. 

The said Board of Public Instruction of ; . . 

county, for and in consideration of the services being so ren- 
dered, agrees to pay said the sum of 

dollars per school month, and to give such further aid as the 
law requires. 

Provided, The Board may raise the salary orlengtlien the 
term specified in this contract, or if the average attendance on 

such school for anj' month shall fall below per cent, 

of the largest enrollment during the school year, or if said 
teacher habitually fails to comply with the provisions of this- 
contract, then the Board may lessen the salary, shorten the 
time specified herein, or annul this contract altogether. 

Signed, 

* . , r. Teacher. 



County Supt. and Secy. 
I'y o.-der of and for Co. Board Pub. Inst. 
Witne^8: 



N. B.^ — The original mus-t be hied in the ofHce of th& 
County Superintendent, who may give any teacher a duplicate- 
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No. of the above that 
attended a Training 
School for teachers 
last summer 

No. that attended the 
last State Teachers' 
Association 

No. th it subscribe for 
an Educational Jour- 
nal 

No. that take a State 
Educational Jour- 
nal ....... 


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Of Time, 


No. days your school was actually 
tauyht 


No. holidavs counted as taught.. 

No. visits by Supervisor or Trus- 
tees 

No. visits to your school by Co, 
Supt. one hour long or over.... 



110 FORMS. 

No. 27. 
Notice of Suspension of Pupil by Teacher. 

School No . . . . , | 

' ■•■ ,190.. \ 



School Supervisor. 

I regret to be compelled to inform you that under the pro- 
vision of the school law (Section 73, "Par. 5th), I have found 
it necessary, for the good of the school, to suspend ......... 

(name pupil) from attendance at school for (not ex- 
ceeding ten) days. The cause for such suspension is 

Have the kindness to call on me at j^our earliest convenience, 
to extend such aid and advice, and take such further action as 
you may judge proper, according to Section 75, Par. 3d, of 
the law. 

Very respectfully, 

, Teacher, 

Note. — The teacher must also give immediate notice to the 
parents or guardian of the pupil, (Sec. 73, Par. 5th.) This 
mat/ be done by modifying the above form, but is always besf 
done in person. 

At the interview, the teacher should carefully avoid finding 
Jieedless faialt with the child, and should manifest such kindly 
spii'it toward both parent and child as should satisfy them that 
the suspension was not prompted b}'^ any malice, but only for 
the reformation of the pupil and the good of the school. 

Indeed, a frank interview with the parent or guardian in ad- 
vance of suspension w^ould often render a resort to such a 
measure unnecessary. 

In all cases of svispension, the teacher must report the mat- 
ter, with the facts, both to the Supervisor and parent. The 
Supervisor must review all suspensions and report the same 
promptly to the County Superintendent, (Sec. 75, Par. 3d,) 
whose action on the matter shall be final. 



FORMvS. Ill 

No. 2S. 
X'otice for Special 3feeH))g of B(uirtL 

Ov¥WR o'f '^ 

SlPERiyXENDEXT OH" PuBLir InSTKUCTION, ! 

CorxTV OF , [ 

,190.. ] 

To , 

Member County Board Puhlir Instruction. 

Sir — I have the honor to request your attendance at a spe- 
cial meeting of the County Board of PubUc Insruction, to 

be held at , on the .... day of , at 

the hour of (a. m. or p. m.), for the purpo.><e of ... 

(8tate the ol)ject of the meeting). 



Co. Supt. Pub. Inst. 



No. -29. 
Warrant on Treasurer of County Hoard of Public Lnstruc- 

tion. 



STATE OF FLORIDA. 

No. . To THE Treasurer of ... . County Board of Public 
Instruction. 

Paj- to the order of 

Dollars. 

[Seal of the State.] 

From any moneys belonging to the County School Fund, for 

services as teacher in School No .... at Given at 

, Florida, this .... day of 1 90 . . , 

$ 

Countersigned by 



Sec. and Co. Supt. Pub. Inst. Chair. Co. Board Pub. Inst. 



Form, of Stub. 

School Warrant. No ....,$...., Issued '...., 189. ., 

To , Teacher of School No , At 

Payable out of County School Fund. For salary 

month. Received bv me 



112 FORMS. 

No. 30. 

JVotif(/in(/ Cou/iii/ Superintendent cf Apportionrnettt uf 
School Funds. 



EUUOATIOXAL DkPABTMKNT, ) 

IStatk of Florida, v- 

Tallahassee, , 190 . . . ) 



Dear S IE — The amount this day appoi-tioned your county 
from the one mill tax (or interest on State School Fund) is 

t. 

You will find the papei-s necessary^for collection enclosed, 

which have properly signed and mailed to Hon , 

Comptroller. 

Respectfully, 



State Supt. Pub. Inst. 
t^ Preserve this for your own information. 



No. 31, 



Notifying Comptroller who is Authorized to Receivt Counhj 
School Funds. 

Office of ^ 

Board Public Instetction', [ 

County of , {' 

...,190.. J 

To Hon , Comptroller, 

Tallahassee.^ Fla. 

Sir- — This is to certify that is Treasurer of 

county, and is authorized to receive the sum 

apportioned to said county from the one mill tax (or interest 
on State School Fund) for the year ^90 . . 



Chaiiman Co. Board Pub. Inst. 

• • J 

Co. Supt. Pub. Inst. 



' FOiiMs. iia 

No. H± 

Jiequin'ition on the Comptroller for School fand Appor- 
tionment. 

Okfice of "^ 

BoAKu I'uBLio Instruction, ! 

C'OUNTV OK , I 

,190.. J 

To Hon , Comptroller, 

f/hllahastiee, J^la. 
Sill — We hereby make application for $ , the sum ap- 
portioned to .j: county from the one mill tax (or 

terest on State School Futid) for the year 190. . 



'JVeasurer of County. 

Chair. Co. Board PuV». Inst. 



No. 33. 

Bond of School Trustees. 

( Vide Sec 9, Par. 'Id., this Com,pilation; Sec. 7, Chap. 4336.) 

Know all men by these presents, That we, A B, C D, and K F, 

Trustees of Special Tax School District No . . . county of 

State of Florida, as principals, and G H and J K, their sure- 
ties, are held and firmly bound unto the Board of Public In- 
struction of said county in the sum of (insert double the 
amount that will be liable to fall into their hands at any time) 
for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we 
firmly bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, 
jointly and severally, by these presents. 

The condition of this obligation is such, that if the said A B, 

C D and E F, Trustees of Special Tax School District No , 

county and State aforesaid, shall faithfully appropriate to their 
proper and lawful uses, as provided in Section 7, Chapter 
4336, laws of 1895, all moneys or other property that may 
come into their hands by virtue of their office, and render 
promptly the required returns, and turn over to their succes- 
sors all bonds, records and effects, then this obligation shall be 
void, otherwise of full force and virtue. 

A B (Seal.) 
C D (Seal.) 
E F (Seal.) 
G H (Seal.) 
J K (Seal.) 



114 FORMS. 

No. 34. 
Contrart for Biiildinr/ School House . 

State OF B"'lokida, > 

CoiTNTY. ) This contract made and entered into 

between A B of the county of , State of Florida, and 

the Board of Pnblic Instruction for the county of , 

State of Florida, and their successors in office. 

Witnesseth: That, in consideration of the sum of one dollar 
in hand paid to A B, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowl- 
edged, and of the further sum of . . . . (insert total amount) to 
be paid as hereinafter provided, the said A B agrees to build a 

(describe the building here merely in general terms 

as log, frame, brick, etc.,) and furnish the material therefor, 
according to the plan and specifications for the construction of 
said house, hereunto appended, at (describe the local- 
ity) and on such lot as the Board may direct. 

The said house is to be built of the best material, in a sub- 
stantial, workman-like manner, and is to be completed and de- 
livered to the said Board, or their successors in office, free from 

any lien for work done or material furnished, by the 

day of , 190 . . ; and, in case the house is not fin- 
ished and ready for delivery by the time herein specified, the 
«aid A B shall forfeit and pay to the said Board, or to their 
successors in office, for the use of the public schools of the 

<50unty, the liquidated sum of (insert the forfeit money), 

and shall also be liable for all damages that may result to said 
Board in consequence of such failure. 

The said Board hereby agrees for themselves, and their suc- 
cessors in office, to pay the said A B the sum of dollars, 

when the said house is finished and delivered as herein stipu- 
lated; (or .... dollars when the foundation of the house is fin- 
ished; and the further sum of dollars when the walls are 

up to the square and ready for the roof; the remaining sura of 

dollars when the said house is completed) as per plan 

and specification and keys are delivered. 

It is further agreed that this contract shall not be sub-let, 
transferred or assigned, without the mutual consent of both 
parties. 



FORMS. 115 

Witness our hamls aii<l seals tliis 'I;iv of , 

A. D. 190.. 



Contractor. 

5 

(,'liair. Co. Board Pub. Lint. 

■> 

Sec. and Co. Supt. Pub. Inst. 



Witness; 



Note — Plans and specifications should be attached to the 
i'on tract. 

Boards should not attempt to build permanent and expen- 
sive school houses without getting some good mechanic or 
architect to draw up full and distinct plans and specifications. 

Work on all school buildings should be done by contract 
and let to the lowest responsible bidder, and the money paid 
by the Board directly to the contractor himself. 



No. 85. 
Deed hy Husband and Wife to School Property. 

Note — It is the duty of County Boards of Public Instruc- 
tion to obtain titles in fee simple to all school property. (Sec. 
40, par. 1st.) The following form will answer in either case, 
whether the wife owns the property, or only signs to release 
dower. 



State ok Flokiua, ) 

CouMTY. ) Know all men by these presents, 



That we, A B and C D, his wife, of the county of , 

State of Florida, in consideration of the sum of dollars, 

to us in hand paid, and by us received, do hereby bargain, sell, 
grant and convey unto the Board of Public Instruction for the 

county of , State of Florida, and to their successors 

in office, the following described premises, situated in the 
county and State aforesaid, to- wit: (Describe definitely the 
premises by giving starting point, metes and bounds), together 
with all the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances 
thereto belonging or in anywise appertaining, to have and to 
hold in fee simple forever. 
8 



116 FORMS. 

In witness whereof the said A B, as well as C D, his wife^ 
who joins in this conveyance for the purpose of absoluteljr 
transferring all her claims to, and relinquishing and convejing 
all her estate and her right of dower in the above described 
premises, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals,, 

this .... day of , in the year one thousand nine 

hundred and 

A B, (Seal.) 
C D, (Seal.) 
Signed, sealed and delivered 

in presence of us — 



State of Florida,} 

County. v I, a 

{Justice of the JPeace^ or Notary Public as the case may he) 
in and for the State and county aforesaid, do hereby certify 

that on this day of A. D. 190 . . in said 

county, before me in person appeared ^ -5 and C D^ his wife, 
both of them to me personally known, each of whom did duly 
and severally say and acknowledge before me that they and 
each of them did execute, sign, seal and deliver the foregoing 
deed of conveyance for the uses and purposes therein expressed. 

And the said Mrs. C JD , upon an examination had and 

made by me separately and apart from her said husband, did 
say and acknowledge before me that she executed, signed and 
sealed said deed for the purpose of absolutely conveying, re- 
leasing, relinquishing and renouncing all of her estate, right, 
title and interest in and to the land in said deed described, 
whether the same be dower interest or estate, or an independ- 
ent separate estate in her own right, and that she did the same 
freely and voluntarily and without any compulsion, constraint, 
apprehension or fear of or from her said husband. 

In witness whereof I hereunto, in the presence of the said 
acknowledgers, set my hand and seal the day and year above 
written. 

A B (sign here). 

CD (sign here). 

[SBAL.J 

(J. p. or Notary sign here, and attach private or official seal). 



FORMS. 117 

No. 36. 

Itemized JEstimate by County Board of Public Instruction. 

Office op 
Board of Public Instruction, 
County, June . . , 190 . . 

{See Par. 18^A, Sec. 40.) 

To Hon , Chairman., arid Members of the Board 

of County Commissioners: 

Sib — The County Board of Public Instruction in session on 
this day found the following funds necessary for school oper- 
ations in county for the school year beginning 

July 1st, A. D. 190. ., and ending June 30th, A. D. 190. . 

For payment of outstanding warrants $ 

For purchase of text-books, charts, etc , 

For construction of school-houses 

For rent of school-houses 

For repair of school-houses 

For insurance of school-houses 

For incidental expenses of schools 

For furniture for schools 

For per diem and mileage of School Board 

For incidental expenses of Board and Co. Supt. . . 

For salary of County Superintendent of Schools 

For salary of teachers of school No. 1 for .... Mos 

For salary of teachers of school No. 2 for .... Mos 

For salary of teachers of school No. 3 for. . . .Mos 

(Complete list of schools). 
Total $ 

A levy of . . . .mills on the taxable property of the county 
will be necessary to give the amount imperatively needed, and- 
we hereby request you to levy the same. 

By order of the County Board of Public Instruction. 



Chairman Co. Board Pub. Inst. 

>••• ....J 

Sec. and Co. Supt. Pub. Inst. 



118 FORMS. 

. ■ No. 37. 

Itemized Estimate of kSchool Ti'ustees. 

State of Florida, "^ 

Special School Tax District No . . . County of \- 

(P. O.) June... ., 190. .. .^ 

To Hon , Chairman, and Members Board County 

Commissioners. 

SiRS--In compliance with Sec. 12, Chapter 4678, Laws oE 
Florida, the School Trustees of Special Tax School District No. 

.... . . ,l<nown as District, hereby submit the 

following itemized estimate of school funds necessary to be 
levied as a special tax: for the school vear be^innino- July 1st, 
190.. .: 

No. miles {ydine the R:\ilroad) R. R. track in said district 
(Repeat twice the above line). 

No. miles Telegraph lines in said district 

(Repeat above twice). 



Amount necessary for new buildings 

Amount necessary for repairs 

Amount necessary for rent of school buildings 

Amoudt necessary for insurance 

Amount necessary for school libraries 

Amount necessary for text-books 

Amount necessary for salaries of teachers. ... 

Amount necessary for incidental expenses 

Amount necessary for school furniture 

Ainount necessary for other school purposes . . 



Total. 



At an election held in said Special Tax School District on the 

. . . .day of , 190. . .,it was determined by a majority of 

those voting that a special tax of mills should be assessed 

and collected annually during the succeeding two years for 
school purposes, on the property of the Special Tax School Dis- 
trict, bounded as follows: Beginning at northeast corner , 

then run west along ........ to ...."...., theuce south along 

to , thence east along to 

, thence north along to starting point. 



FORMS. 119 

Your honorable body is hereby recjuested to make the above 
levy. 

liespectfiill}'', 



Signed. > Trustee 



(E^^A copy of the above must be filed with the Clerk of the 
Board of County Commissioners, one with the Comptroller of 
the State, and one with the County Board of Public Instruc- 
tion. See Sec. 12, Chapter 4678, Laws of Florida. 



No. 38. 



I Monthly Piaancial Statement, of County Board of Public 

Instruction 

State of Florida, 
County of 



tIDA, \ 



To Hon , 

* Clerk Circuit Court. 

Sir — In compliance with Section 2, Chapter 4332, Laws of 
Florida, we hereby file with you the following itemized finan- 
cial statement of all school moneys received, appropriations 

made and warrants issued for the month ending, the 

day of , A. D. l99.. 

(T^^In publishing, blank items may be omitted. 

— o — 

RECAPITULATION. 

Total receipts during the month $ 

Total expenditures during the month % 



Balance in treasury 
Deficit in funds. . . . 



120 



FORMS. 



190, 



ITEMIZED RECEIPTS. 



Balance in Treasury last report 

From Tax Collector, county School levy . 



" " poll tax 

" " poll tax 

State Treasurer, redemption of lands. . . 

" " one mill tax 

" " school fund interest 

County Supt., tuition non-resident pupils 

" '* examination fees 



Total receipts. 



*Here state amount from other sources. 



ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES. 



U 
1 = 


To Whom. 


For What. 


Date. § 

S 
< 


«4 


Joan Doe . . 


Salary as Teacher 

{The above is sample of entry 
This space may be extended to 
suit requirements. ) 

Salary County Superintendent 
Traveling expenses Co. Supt 


Oct. 2, 1895 


|40 00 












Per diem and mileage as mem- 
ber of Board 
















(( <; <( 

a .( CI 

Office expenses of County Su- 
perintendent and Board 
















School lot at No. 










Building school house at 

No 























FORMS. 



121 



... 




Repairs on school building at 
No. 










ki H ki 

ti 1< ii 

Rent of school building at. . . 
No 
















<« H ii 
<C <( (i 

Insurance of school building at 
..No. 
















<( a ti 
<( <t (( 

Fuel for school No . at 








a a i< 
It (t .1 

Janitor for school No . .at 

Furniture for school No 

at 






















Ct ii .i 

<( it t. 

Commission of Treasurer 










County school debt 








Interest on indebtedness 

Pupils attending school in .. 
county 

ti .i i< 
Institutes or Summer Schools 
























Service on Grading Committee. 










It i< 11 
Free text books 










* 








































Total expenditures.. 







*Here state amounts for other purposes. 



APPROPRIATIONS. 

For School No. 1, salary of teacher for Mos. 

For School No. 2, salary of teacher for Mos. 



12-2 FORMS. 



{CompleteList). ■ 

For salary of County Superintendent per annum . . 
For traveling expenses of County Superintendent. 

P^or per diem and mileage Countj^ Board 

For school lot at 



P^or building school house at. . . . 

U (( U (.1 

(( a u n 

For repairs on school at 

a u u a 

u u a c( 

For furniture for school at 

a u u u 

For fuel for school at . . . 

u a a u 

(( u U C( 

For insurance of school house at. 

u (; u a 

For janitor for school at . . . . ... 



For county school indebtedness 

For interest on indebtedness 

For pupils attending schools in other counties 

For commissions of Treasurer 

For office expenses of County Superintendent and Board . 

For Institutes or Summer Schools 

For expenses of examinations : 

For free text-books 



Total aporopriations. 



•^ Other purposes, state what. 



FOKMS. 12>i 

{KtulorKenieiit for linck of' tftis I''\.>ri/i.) 
FIXAXCrAL STATEMENT. 

BOARD OF I'TBLIC INSTRUCTION 

OK 

County. 



For month ending day of 1 90 



Filed with Clrkk of Circuit Court, the day of. . . . 

.190.. 



We certify that the within statement is true and correct in 
every particular. 



Chairman Co. Board Pub. Inst. 
Attest: 



Co. Supt. Pub. Iii^t. 



INDEX. 



I'ar. Sec. Pge. 
ACCOUNTS - 

Audited and paid by County Boards 7 40 17 

ACTS OF LEGISLATURE— 

Providing for Uniform Examination of Teach- 
ers (1893) 47 

Amending the above (1895) 36 

Election of County School Boards (1893) 51 

Amending the above (1895) 66 

School Sub-Districts and Special Tax (1893). . 53 

Amending the above (1895) 64 

School Sub-Districts and Special Tax (1895). . 62 
School Districts and District School Taxes 

(1899) 70 

Defining school day, month, etc. (1893) 54 

Prescribing limits of school year, etc. (1893). . 54 
School Boards and Treasurers f.o publish re- 
ports (1895) 5J^ 

Monroe County Board, special duty (1895) ... 60 
Establishing South Florida Military and Edu- 
cational Institute (1895) ... 61 

Amending the above (1897) 68 

Prohibiting race co-education (1895) 63 

Institute for Blind and Deaf, amending (1895) 65 

Providing fo»- Teachers' Summer Schools (1897) 67 
Fixing per diem and mileage of School Boards 

(1897) 68 

School Census by County Superintendent 

(1899) 75 

County Uniformity of Text- Books (1899) 76 

Providing for Teachers' Summer Schools 

(1899) 77 

School Boards may contract debts and borrow 

money 78 

Poll taxes, collecting and reporting (1899) 79 

AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE 44 



126 INDKX. 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
APPARATUS— 

Counly Board to provide 5 

County Superintendent to look after 

Penalty for defacing 

APPEALS— 

State Sui^erintendent to decide upon or refer. 

btate Board to entertain and decide 

State Board to prescribe manner of making. . 

County Superintendent to notify of right of. 

APPENDIX 

APPLICANTS— 

For examination, requirements of 

For Third Grade Certificates, requiremrhts for 

For Second Grade Certificates, requirements 
for 

For First Grade Certificates, requirements for 

For State Certificates, requirements for 

For Stfcte Certificates, must file certain evi- 
dence 

For Life CertiGcates 

For Temporary Certificates, to furnish satis- 
factory excuse, etc 49 24 

APPOINTEES— 

To notify of acceptance and make pledge...... 1 _ 9 10 

A PPORTIONME NT— 

Of One Mill Tax, when made 

Of Interest on State School Fund 

By VFhom made, and the basis 4 

Basis changed 

When made on discretionary basis 5 

APPROPRIATIONS— 

To South Florida Military Institute (1895) 

To same (1897) 

To Teachers' Summer Schools (1897), 

To same (1899)...... 1 77 

ARBITRATIONS— 

What matters settled by 13 10 

Powers of Hrbitrators 13 10 

Who to prescribe manner of conducting 3 15 11 



5 


40 


17 


2 


48 


22 




124 


42 


6 


33 


14 


3 


15 


11 


3 


15 


11 


3 


48 


23 

47 




61 


26 




62 


26 




63 


27 




64 


27 




65 


17 




33 


89 




66 


17 



6 


6 


7 


6 


33 


14 


7 


55 


33 


14 


4 


61 


23 


13 


1 


67 



Sec. Pgc. 


14 


83 


or, 


;)4 


104 


37 


10.-) 


87 


lO.) 


88 


;};5 


14 


40 


17 


48 


22 


98 


35 


118 


41 


15 


83 


18 


84 


26 


85 



ixoEx. 127 

Far. 
ARBOR L> AY 

-ASSESSORS OF TAXES- 

To assess school district tax 

School district tax, how to carry out 

County school tax, how to carry out 

To issue warrants 

ATTENDANCE OF PUPILS— 

A i-erage attendance, basis of apportiontnent. 4 

Largest attendance, what do to secure 5 

County Superintendent to look after 2 

On special tax schools, when by outsiders. . . . 

F'-otn another county, when. 

Tuition for, when may be required 

To be restricted to own district 

For holidays, how reported 

B. 

BLANKS- 

Printiutj; and distribution of I 38 14 

Use of bj' County Superintendent 4 48 22 

Use of by school officers and teachers 3 81 

Forms of (See list on pp. 89-90) 91-122 

Reports of Co. Supts. to conform to 11 85 

Applications for Life Certificates to conform 

to 34 86 

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS- 
See County Commissioners. 

BOARD OF EDUCATION— 

See State Board of Education. 

BOARD OF MANAGERS— 

Of Institute for Blind, Deaf and Dumb 24 13 

General Duties of 26 13 

Shall proTide inmates transportation 28 13 

Shall provide necessary clothing, etc . .' , 89 13 

Shall provide for education of inmates 30 14 

Shall report to the Legislature 31 14 

See Institute for Bund. Deaf and Dumb. 



128 INDEX. 

Par. Sec. Pge, 

BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION-- 

Shall consist of three members 43 21 

Electt^d every two years 43 21 

One from each School Board District 44 21 

Elected by county at large 44 21 

By whom commissioned 4 82 

When term of office shall begin 43 21 

Vacancies in, how filled , 45 21 

To be a body corporate, powers defined 34 15 

Procedure of orgauizatioa 35 15 

Titles to school property shall be vested in 36 16 

Compensation of members. 37 16 

From what fund paid 15 ' 

To hold regular meetings 17 40 19 

To meet at least monthly 5 82 

To convene in special session, when 17 40 19' 

County Superintendent to be Secretary of 38 16 

To fix compensation of County Superintend- 
ent 15 40 19 

County Treasurer to be Treasurer of 39 16 

Duties of 4© 16 

To disburse school funds solely for public free 

schools ,. 9 6 

To hold and dispose of school property 1 40 16 

To locate and maintain schools 2 40 16 

To appoint Supervisors 3 40 16 

To select and provide school sites 4 40 16 

General discretionary duties and powers 5 40 17 

To establish high schools § 40 17 

To employ, contract with and pay teachers. .6 40 17 

To locate schools not nearer than three miles. 6 40 17 

To audit and pay all accounts due 7 40 17 

To keep record of official acts 8 40 17 

To make certain reports 8 40 17 

To file itemized annual financial statement. ..9 40 17 

Statement to be certified, published or posted 9 40 17 

To file itemized monthly financial statement. 10 40 17 

Statement to be certified, published or posted 10 40 17 

To adopt county uniform system of books 11 40 18 

To consult with certain ones in selection of 

books 12 40 18 

Prior adoptions not to be impaired 13 40 18 

To prescribe course of study and grade schools 14 40 18 

To require physiology taught in every schocl. 14 40 18 



INDKX. 129 

Par. Sec. I'ge^ 

To exercise plenary powers 16 

To prepare and file itemized estimates 18 

To select students for certain echoola 19 

To appoint Grading Committees 20 

See also 

To pay members of Grading Committees 

To fix hours of a school day 21 

To form School Board Districts, etc 28 

To have school census taken, when 24 

To look after collection of poll taxes 25 

Not contract with a member, f^xcept 

To determine the date for opening schools 

To order Special Tax School District elections 22 

When to order district elections 

May change boundaries of, prescribed in peti- 
tion 

To publish notice of such elections 

To appoint Inspectors and Clerks 

To pay cost of such elections 

To canvass the vote and declare the result. . . 

To hold bi-ennial district elections, for what.. 

To remove Trustees, for what and how 

To fill vacancies in Boards of Trustees 

To control Special Tax Schools, except 

The right to reject teachere and fill 

To fix salaries of teachers and length of school 
term 

To examine books of Tax Collector 

Authorized to contract debts, conditions 

Authorized to borrow money, conditions 

Prohibited from pecuniary interest in the 
adoption or sale of i^chool books 

Penalty for 

Penalty with regard to financial statements.. 

To select students for Agricultural College. .. 

Force and effect of Rules and Regulations of.. 

To use blanks prescribed by State 

To issue teachers' warrants, when 

To contract with teachers, when 

To select and contract with teachers 

Duty not to be delegated to others 

To assign teachers, when . . 

Caution in employing teachers 

To prescribe course of study 



40 


19 


40 


19 


40 


19 


40 


19 


54-55 


25 


57 


26 


40 


19 


40 


30 


40 


SO 


40 


30 


41 


20 


79 


30 


40 


30 


84 


30 


85 


31 


86 


31 


86 


31 


87 


83 


89 


33 


90 


33 


92 


33 


93 


33 


93 


33 


93 


33 


95 


34 


103 


36 


116 


41 


117 


41 


136 


43 


128 


43 


129 


43 


133 


44 


3 


81 


g 


81 


6 


83 


7 


82 


9 


82 


8 


82 


9 


83 


10 


83 


11 


83 



^ Pge. 


12 


83 


13 


83 


15 


83 


16 


84 


17 


84 


17 


84 


17 


84 


18 


84 



130 TNDEX. 

Far. Sec 

To print Rules and Regulntions, etc 

Recommendation as to Christmas holidays. ... 

May require tuition fees for non -resident pu- 
pils 

To combine schools, when 

To sub-divide counties into school districts. . 

To keep record of school districts 

To furnish Supervisors with district bounds. .. 

To restrict pupils to their own school 

Contract with teacher not to exceed life of 
Certificate 19 84 

BOND OR BONDS— 

When required, by whom fixed and approved 2 9 10 

Liability for loss, when officer not uncier.. 3 9 10 

Of Srhool Trustees, Form of 113 

Kinds, scbool funds may be invested in 16 11 

BUILDINGS, BOKOOL— 

Unlawful to teach whites and negroes in the 

same 11^ 10 

Penalty for violation . .- 12 10 

Under charge of State Superintendent 32 14 

County Board to provide and care for 5 40 17 

Not to be closer than three miles 6 40 17 

County Supt. to examine condition of ....... - 3 48 32 

County Supt. to look after construction of . . . 10 48 23 

Teachers to see not defaced, etc 3 73 28 

Teachers to control in vicinity of 4 73 38 

Supervisor to overlook construction of, etc. . . 3 75 39 

Trustees may provide or repair 97 35 

Debts may be contracted for 116 41 

Money may be borrowed for 117 41 

Penalty for insulting teacher in 131 42 

Penalty for introducing obscene prints into. . 133 43 

Penalty for defacing with obscene thing 124 43 

Penalty for marring or destroying 135 43 

Contract for building, Form of 114 

o. 

CENSUS, SCHOOL— 

County Supt. to take 16 

Penalty for failure to take 16 

Assistants to make oath 16 

School Board to take, when. . , 34 



48 


33 


48 


23 


48 


33 


40 


30 



INDKX. 



CERTIFICATES, TEAr'HERS'— 

No person can teac'i who does not hold one. 

Must be obtained in this State 

Five grades of 

Issued on examination, mode of 



Par. 



(See Examination). 

Applicant for, must file endorsement. 

Form of endorsement, No. 18 

Third Grade, requirements for 

Form of. No. 16 . . . .^ 

Second Grade, requirements for W. . 

Form of ^^ No. 17 

First Grade, requirements for 

Form of, No. 18 

State, requirements for..; 

Form oF, No. 19 



(See State Certificate). 

Life, requirements for 

Form of. No. 20 

(See Life Certificate). 

Third Grade good only in county issued 

First and Second Grades transferable 

By whom issued 11 

See also 

See also 10 

Terms of Certificate 

See aho forms 19 and 20 

By whom revoked or suspended 1 :! 

For w hat may be revoked 

Form of revocation, No. 32 

Temporary Certificates, who may issue 

Term of 

Form of, No. 21 

State Normal College diplomas, benefits of. ... 

Proviso as to the benefits 

Trustees to noaiinace only holders of 

Penalty for violating law in issuing of 

County Boards to contract only with holders 

of 

State and county holders of, to be selected 

fiist in assignment of teachers 

9 



Sec. Pge. 

r)S 2B 

r.8 26 

;•)<) 26 

60 2f) 



61 


26 




98 




100 


m 


27 




101 


64 


27 




101 


6.^) 


27 




103 


66 


27 




10:} 


67 


27 


68 


27 


4« 


22 


55 


25 


'.V^ 


15 


69 


27 




10:! 


4N 


2:} 


72 


28 




104 


49 


24 


49 


24 




104 


71 


28 


71 


28 


9:5 


m 


.28 


43 


7 


82 


9 


83 



Sec. Pge. 


31 


86 


35 


86 


35 


86 


107 


35 


9 


10 


85 


15 


40 


17 


40 


17 


114 


40 


42 


20' 


42 


20 


95 


34 


107 


39 


107 


39 



132 INDEX. 

Par. 

Certificate to be exhibited 

Teachers should seek the highest grade of . . . . 

Teachers content with any certificate they 

may oStain should be dropped 

CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES— Duties of 

CLERK CIRCUIT COURT— 

Bond of school officers to be filed with 2 

To record organization of School Board 

Annual financial statement to be filed with. . 9 
Monthly financial statement to be filed with.. 10 
To keep above statements open to inspection. 
School Board Districts, creation of, filed with 
Change in boundaries of, certified in office of. 
Itemized estimate of Trustees to be filed with 
To publish assessments and collection of taxes 
Penalty for failure to publish 

COMMON SCHOOL FUND— 
See Statu: School FuiND. 

COMPTROLLER, STATE— 

Itemized estimate of Trustees to be filed with 95 34 

To assess and collect certain taxes 95 34 

To remit to County Treasurers 95 34 

No Collector to buy, etc., warrants of 110 39' 

CONSTITUTION, STATE— 

Article XII, on Education 5 

Article IV, Extract from 7 

CONTRACT— . 

To be made with teachers 6 

Form of, No. 24 

For school buildings, to be looked after by 

County Superintendent 10 

Form of. for building school house. No. 34. . . 

Not to be made with teacher, when 

County Board required to make 

Not to exceed life of teacher's certificate 

Primary duty of teachers to enter into a 

CONVENTION OF SCHOOL OFFICERS— 

For what and by whom may be called 3 33 14 



40 


17 




100 


48 


22 




114 


7 


82 


8 


83 


19 


84 


31 


86 



/ INDKX. 133 

P(tr .Sec. Pge, 

COUNTY BOARD— 

See Board of Public Instruction 

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS— 

Duties of, to Institute for Blind, Deaf and 

Dumb 27 13 

To supply trdnsportatioii to one entering. ... 28 13 

To Special Tax School Districts 95 34 

To poll taxes 100 36 

See also 102 36 

To levy county school tax 108 39 

To provide book to record warrants 115 40 

To contract debts for school houses, when 116 41 

To borrow money for school houses, when. . . 117 41: 

COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD— 

See Board of Public Instruction. 
COUNTY SCHOOL FUND- 

See Funds. 

COUxNTY SUPERINrENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 

An ofScer of the Department 2 9 

Requirements for eligibility 1 81 

Shall conform to regulations 3 9 

Secretary of County Board 38 1& 

Compensation of 15 40 19 

Duties of, to require monthly reports of Su- 
pervisors 3 40 16 

To attest annual financial statements 9 40 17 

To attest monthly financial statements 10 40 17 

To see text books adopted are used 12 40 18 

To look after locating schools 1 48 21 

To visit and examine condition of each school 2 48 22 

To give advice 2 48 22 

Tj awaken interest in education 3 48 22 

To confer with Supervisor's, etc 4 48 23 

To keep them supplied with laws, blanks, etc. 4 48 22 

To select fit persons for Supervisors 5 48 22 

See also. 29 86 

To keep complete record of each school 6 48 22 

To report to State Supt. names, etc 7 48 22; 

To dtcide disputes and refer his decisions . . 8 48 22 

To look after school buildings and funds 10 48 2^ 



134 INDEX. 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

To conduct examinations and issue certificates 11 

See also sections 53 and 55 

To hold special examinations and issue tem- 
porary certificates, proviso regarding 13 

See also Sec. 49 

To revoke or suspend certificates 13 

To file examination papers, when to publish. . 14 

See also 

To forward monthly certified list of persons 
who have paid poll taxes 15 

See also 

To take school census 16 

Not to purchase land without authority — Note 

To give notice of Teachers' examinations. . . 

To appoint assistant exy miners, when 

To require applicants to file endorsement .... 

What candidates for certificates may examine 

How proceed with examination quuestions . . . 

Mode of conducting examinations 

Duties with Grading Committee 

May endorse certain teachers' certificates . . . 

May issue certain certificates upon diplomas. . 

May revoke endorsed certificates 

To review reports relating to expelled or sus- 
pended pupils i 75 £9 

To have same control of special tax schools as 
of others 

Monthly reports of Treasurer to be filed with, 

Duties pertaining to County line pupils 

Not to be interested m the eale or adoption of 
school books 

Penalty for (see also Sec. 127). 

Penalty for violating examination laws 

Penalty relating to financial statements 

To report tuition fees to County Board 

When authorized to appoint teachers 

To instruct teachers in reporting holidays . . . 

May suspend or close a school 

To be satisfied teacher has legal certificate be- 
fore contracting 31 86 

To recommend removal of teachers from the 

corps, when 35 87 

To make annual report to State Supt. , when . . 21 84 

For what removable 5 9 



48 


22 




25 


48 


23 




24 


48 


23 


48 


23 


56 


26 


48 


23 


103 


37 


48 


23 




23 


22 


85 


23 


85 


24 


85 


52 


24 


52 


24 


53 


25 


53 


25 


68 


27 


71 


28 


72 


28 



93 


33 


113 


40 


118 


41 


126 


43 


126 


43 


128 


43 


129 


43 


15 


83 


25 


85 


26 


85 


28 


85 



INDEX. IBS- 

Par. See. Pge 



COURSE OF STUDY- 



40 


18- 


49 


la-- 


VI 


8S^ 



To be prescribed by County Board 14 

To embrace physiology as to alcoholics, etc. . 14 
Its publication recommended 

ID. 

Eay— See School Day. 

DEBT— 

Trustees shall create none 97 3^ 

May be contracted, when and how 116 41 

Monej^ borrowed to discharge, when and how 117 41 

DEEDS— 

To school property, Form of, No. 35 115» 

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— 

Officfrsof 2 9' 

Shall conform to regulations of 

Tenure of office 

For what removable 

By whom removed 4 

State Supt. to prescribe regulations for 7 

DISPUTES, OR DIFFERENCES - 

May be submitted to arbitrators 

To be entertained by State Board, when. . . . .. 3 

To be decided by State Supt. or referred 6 

County Supt. to decide and refer 8 

DISTRICT— 

School districts, constitution for 

Town or city may constitute 

School districts defined (see also Sec. 83) 

Special tax school districts, defined 

See Special Tax School District. 

School Board Districts, how formed 43 20^ 

See School Board District. 

Permanent and convenient school districs... 17 84 

Pupils restricted to own school district 18 81 

DISTRICT, SCHOOL TAX— 

Constitution for 10 fe 



3 


9 


4 


9v 


5 


9 


15 


11 


33 


15. 


13 


10^ 


15 


11 


33 


14 


48 


2a 


10 


6; 


11 


6. 


8 


10= 


8 


lOv 



136 



INDEX. 



Par. 

Where and for what may be expended 

Procedure required to^levy 

Elections biennial to fix^millage of 

Commissions for collecting to be audited by 

Trustees 

Assessor to carry out in separate column 

Trustees to notify Assessor^of millage to levy. 

EDUCATION, HIGHER— 

State Board of Education'to^ foster .' 

.ELECTION— 

Of Boards of Public Instruction 

See also I 

To create special taxTschool districts 

Of Trustees, and for fixing millage, etc 

Notice of district elections to be published 

Qualifications of voters in 

Majority of the votes cast to determine 

Conducted as general elections, except 

List of qualified voters to be furnishea by Su- 
pervisor of Registvation 

Vote canvassed by County Board 

Biennial elections for Trustees and millage.... 
Ballot^ form of 

ESTIMATE, ITEMIZED— See Itemized Estimate. 

EXAMINATIONS, TEACHERS'— 

Notice of, to be given: 

Held in June and September yearly 

One must be held at County Site 

Others may be ordered by State Supt 

Questions prepared by State Supt 

Sent under seal 

For County Certificates, conducted by County 

Supt 

For State Certificates, by State Supt 

Prerequisite for, (see also Sec. 61) 

When County Supt. may appoint assistants. . . 
JExaminees mu3t file character endorsement. . 

Must pay a fee of $1 

Fees, how applied ^ 



Sec. Pge. 



11 


6 


84 


30 


90 


33 


99 


38 


104 


37 


105 


37 



15 11 



43 


21 


44 


21 


84 


30 


84 


30 


86 


31 


87 


32 


87 


32 


88 


33 


88 


32 


89 


32 


90 


32 


91 


32 



22 


85 


49 


24 


50 


24 


51 


24 


52 


24 


53 


24 


52 


24 


65 


72 


38 


86 


23 


85 


61 


26 


61 


26 


57 


26 



137 



Par. 



Sec Pgp. 


53 


25 


53 


24 


52 


24 


56 


26 


56 


26 


4!) 


24 


128 


43 



Mode of conducting pxaiuinations 

Penalty for cheating in 

Procedure when doubtful of meaning of ques- 
tion 

Papers to be preserved by County Supt 

Privilege of dissatisfied examinee 

County Supt. may bold special, vs^hen 

Penalty for violating examination laws 

EXA.MINATIONS, SCHOOL- 

When teacher must hold 6 73 29 

IF-. 

.FENCES, SCHOOL - 

County Board to provide and repair 5 40 17 

Teachers to protect from injury .... 3 73 28 

Penalty for putting obscene tilings OQ 124 42 

Penalty forjinjuring or destroying 125 43 

IQORMAL SCHOOL AND BUSINESS SUBSTITUTE— 

A free pupil for each Senatorial District 132 44 

FORFEITURES— 

When by a county .... 119 42 

When by a school 120 42 

FORMS— (See List of, Pages 89-90) 91-123 

funds- 
No law shall be enacted authorizing appropri- 
ation to other than school purposes 

Shall not be issued for any sectarian school . . 
All resident youth shall have free instruction, 

as far as the funds will'admit 

Every officer in charge of, to give bond 3 

To turn over to his successor 

Arising from examination fees, disposition of 

Rate levied to be recorded 

Treasurer's receipts to State amount of each 

rund 105 37 

Each fund to be given 'credit in publishing 

taxes charged to Collector 107 39 

Monthly collections shall give each fund 107 39 

Final \ settlement with Collector to show 

amount of each fund uncollected 107 39 

To whom different funds are to be paid 112 40 



13 


7 


13 


7 


1 


9 


9 


10 


10 


10 


57 


26 


105 


37 



3 


.5- 


4 


5 


4 


ry 


5 


& 


16 


11 


15 


11 


7 


6 


33 


14 



138 INDEX. 

Par. Sec. Fge.. 
FUNDS, STATE SCHOOL— 

Who to manage 

Sources of 

Interest on, only to be used 

Principal of, inviolate 

Securities may be invested in 

Who to manage all State educational funds. . 2 

Basis of apportionment of 

Who to apportion 4 

State Treasurer to keep account of with coun- 
ties Ill 40 

In apportioning, Forms used Nos . 30, 31 and 
32... U2-11S 

FUNDS, COUNTY SCHOOL— 

Sources of 9 6- 

No lavp shall be enacted divertiug 13 7 

County school officers to be paid from 15 7 

Itemized Monthly Statements, certified to, to 

be filed, and published or posted 10 40 17 

Item^ized estimate of supplement to, to be 

filed 95 34 

Teacher's certificate to be for term both funds 

will sustain school - 95 34 

Monthly report of, to be filed by Treasurer. . . 113 40 

Necessary expenses of schools for any year, 

first claim on fund of that year 116 117 41 

Transference of, for pupils going to another 

county , 

When forfeited 

Penalty for failing to file reports of. 

FUNDS, DISTRICT SCHOOL— 

Constitutional provision for 

For what may be expended 

No law shall be enacted to divert. 

Who to apportion, and proviso 

To be held for each district by County Treas- 
urer 

Treasurer liable for on his bond 

Part for teachers can not be diverted 

Other part subject to requisition of Truttees. . 

To be used in district solely for school pur- 
poses 96 35 



118 


41 


119 


42 


129 


43; 


10 


& 


11 


16 


13 


7 


94 


34 


95 


34 


95 


34 


96 


35 


96 


35 



INDKX. 139 

■* 

Par. Sec. Pge, 
FURNITURE- 

School Board to Rui)ply •'> 40 17 

Penalty for defacing 1-4 42 

GRADING COMMITTEE- 

To be appointed by County Board 20 40 \9 

See also ''J4 25 

Who eligible, and duties of 5-^ 35 

Time allowed and from what fund paid •'>7 26 

Balance of fund, how applied •''>~ 20 

GRADING SHEET— 

Grading Committee must make two copies.. . 55 25 

Retain one and file one with County Superin- t 

tendent '>'5 25 

GROUNDS— 

For school site, by whom provided 4 40 1(5 

Improvement and care of 5 40 17 

Authority of teacher on 4 73 28 

Improvement of by Super visi)r 2 75 20 

Arbor Daj-, to be devote i to planting trees on 14 83 

BE. 

HIGHER EDUCATION— 

State Board to provide for. ^) 15 11 

HIGH SCHOOLS- 

When County Boar Js shall establish 5 40 17 

Who eligible to attend -. 18 84 

HOLIDAYS— Which are school holidays 81 30 

Legal holidays. See Note 30 

Recommendation concerning Christmas 13 83 

Arbor Day not a holiday 14 88 

How to be reported by teachers. 26 85 

I. 

IDIOTS OR INSANE-Census of, to be taken Itj 48 23 

IMMORALITY — Cause for revoking a teacher's cer- 
tificate 72 28 



Sec. Pge. 


73 


28 


5 


9 


15 


11 


72 


28 


3 


5 


48 


23 



140 INDEX. 

Far. 

Cause for suspend in^ a pupil 5 

INCOMPETENCY— Cause for removal from ofiSce.. 

Who empowered to remove 4 

Cause for revoking a teachers cercificate. .... 

INCUMBENT— To be notified before removal 

Teacher to be notified of revocation of certifi- 
cate 13 

INDUSTRY — Neatness, promptness, etc., to be in- 
culcated by teacher 2 73 28 

INSPECTION— By . County Superintendent, for 

proper location of schools • 1 48 21 

Of each school once a terra, by County Super- 
intendent 2 48 22 

To keep record of his visits of 6 48 22 

INSPECTORS AND CLERKS— 

Of district elections, appointed by County 

Board , 

Duties of 

To make returns to County Boards 

INSTITUTE FOR BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB— 

Board of Managers 

Location of 

Who entitled to benefits 

Procedure to become a beneficiary of 

First transportation to, paid by County Com- 
missioners 28 13 

See ALSO BoARi) of Managers. 

INSTITUTE, SOUTH FLORIDA MILITARY— 

See Military Institute. 

INSTITUTES— 

State Superintendent to provide for 3 33 14 

County Institutes, what fund applied to 57 26 

INSTRUCTIONS— 

Regulations, decisions, etc, by whom pre- 
pared 1 33 14 

INSULTING— 

A teacher before his pupils, penalty for 121 43 



86 


31 


86 


31 


89 


31 


24 


13 


25 


^3 


26 


13 


27 


13 



INDEX. 141 

Par. Sec, Pge. 
INTEREST— See Funds, also Monkys. 
INTERRUPTING— A school, penalty for V22 42 

INVESTMENTS— 

Of State funds, by whom and in what made.. lO 11 

In what securities, may not be made Ki 11 

ITEMIZED— Annual Reports of County Boards, to 

be fi 40 17 

Financial Statements of County Boards, to bo 10 10 17 
Bills accompanying requisitions of Trustee?, 

to be % 35 

Poll taxes in publications of Clerks, to be. . . . 107 39 

ITEMIZED ESTIMATE- 

Oounty Boards to prepare and file IS -10 19 

Form of, No. 36 117 

Trustees to prepare and tile 9o 34 

When copy not to be filed with Comptroller. . 95 34 

Form of , No. 37 1 18 

J". 

JURY — When teacher not liable to duty on 74 39 

KNOWLEDGE— State Board to co operate in dif- 
fusing <i 15 11 

County Boards to perform all reasonable acts 
in diffusion of l(i 40 19 

LANDS— 

School lands, mangement of 1 15 11 

Improvement of by County Boards 5 40 17 

Record of, by description in districts 17 84 

County Superintendent not to purchase, with- 
out authority — Note 23 

LAW OR LAWS— 

Regulations of County Boards have effect of. 2 81 

Citing powers of arbitrators 13 10 

Special tax schools under the same, as other 

schools 93 33 

See Acts; Appkndix; also, School Laws. 



60 


26 


66 


27 


34 


86 




99 




103 



142 INDEX. 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

LECTURERS— Paid by County Boards from certain 

fund 57 96 

LIABLE — An officer is, for los3, when 3 9 10 

A County Treasurer is, for district funds 95 34 

School officers and County Treasurers are 
liable to suspension and removal, for failure 
to make and publish financial statements. . 129 43 

LIBRARIES — Constitutional provision for 11 6 

Trustees may purchase 97 35 

LIEN — A school debt a lien only upon the district or 

county... 116 41 

LIFE CERTIFICATES— Only ones not issued on 
examination 

By vphom issued, requirements for 

Applicant for, must present endorsement. .. 

Form of application, No. 15 

Form of Certificate, No. 20 

LINE PUPILS, COUNTY— See Attendance; also Pupils. 

MAJORITY— 

Of any educational Board, a quorum , 7 9 

Of votes cast determines any question in a 

special tax school district 87 32 

MEETINGS- 

Regular, of County B jards .... - 17 

Special, at call of County Supt 17 

Regular, must be at least monthly 

To canvass special tax district elections.' 

MILITARY INS'JTTUTE, SOUTH FLORIDA— 

Establishment of 

Under control of State Board - 

Design 

Beneficiaries, and manner of selecting 

Tuition, board, etc. , furnished 

Appropriation for (same, present biennmrn). . 

MIXED SCHOOLS— 

Constitution bearing on 12 



40 


19 


40 


19 


5 


82 


89 


32 


20 


12 


20 


12 


21 


12 


22 


12 


22 


12 


23 


13 



9 


10 


10 


10 


l--) 


11 


Ifi 


11 


:j:j 


14 


88 


14 


U) 


17 


40 


17 


40 


17 



INDEX. 143 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

Penal offense to mix races in any school 11 10 

Penalty for violating the law 12 10 

MONEYS— 

Officers to give bond before receiving. ,' <) lo 

Officers issuing to another not under bond 

liable ;3 

To be turned over to successor 

All State educational, State Board to manage. 2 

Investment of, made by State Board 

Apportioned by State Supt 4 

Discretion of State Supt. in 5 

Accurate accounts of, to be kept by County 

Boards S 

Itemized report of, to I e made to State Supt. 8 

See also 9 

Itemized statements of all receipts and dis- 
bursements of, for month preceding, to be 

filed with Clerk of Circuit Court 10 40 17 

Above to be certified by Chairman County 

Board and attested by County Supt 10 40 17 

County Supt. to see that all county school, are 

applied to objects for which raised 10 48 2'3 

Special tax school district, apportioned by 

Trustees 

Appointment of, to be fair and equitable 

See also 

County Treasurer liable upon his bond for 

school district fund 95 3_j^ 

To be used within district and solely for school 

purposes 9<. 35 

Trustees to create no debt without approval of 

County Board 9^ 35 

Trustees to audit commission for collecting 

district tax rjg 3q 

Certified lists of poll tax payers for previous 

month to be filed with County Board 102 3(3 

Copy of above with Treasurer's receipt to be 

filed with County Commissioners 102 .36 

County Supt. to file certified copy of above 

with State Supt. (See also. Sec. 103) 15 48 23 

To whom school moneys, must be paid 113 40 

County Treasurer to file with County Supt. a 
detailed and itemized monthly report 113 40 



94 


34 


94 


34 


95 


34 



5 


9 


15 


11 


40 


20 


103 


36 



144 INDEX. 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

How and when transferable to another 

county 118 41 

Direction and use of, when a county forfeits. 119 43 

Direction and use of, when a school forfeits. . 130 43 

MONTH— See School Month. 

MONTHLY REPORT— See Teacher. 

3sr. 

NEGLECT OF DUTY— Cause for removal 

State Board to remove any subordinate for. .. 4 
• Relative to poll taxes, subjects Tax Collector 

and School Board to suspension 25 

See also 

Relative to financial statements, subjects 
School Board, County Superintendent, and 
County Treasurer to suspension and re- 
moval 129 43 

NORMAL SCHOOLS— 

Constitutional provision for 14 7 

Establishment of, for whites 18 13 

Establishment of, for negroes '. . 19 13 

Both under control of State Board 19 13 

Diploma from, entitles to what certificate 71 38 

o 

OFFICERS— Qualifications of 

Of the Department of Public Instruction . 

Subject to regulations of Department 

Tenure of office, maximum 

Subject to removal for cause 

Not to vote on own compensation 

Must qualify, when and how 1 

Give bond before receiving moneys 3 

When personally liable for loss 3 

Turn over effects to successor 

Removals of, by whom made 4 

Pay school moneys to proper officer 

Not to sell nor induce adoptions of text books 

Penalty. (See also Section 136.) 

Must use blanks nrescribed 



1 


81 


3 


9 


3 


9 


4 


9 


5 


9 


6 


9 


9 


10 


9 


10 


9 


10 


10 


10 


15 


11 


11 


11 


113 


40 


137 


43 


3 


81 



40 


17 


73 


2»' 


75 


29 


124 


42 


12-) 


43 



INDEX. 145' 

Far. Sec. Pge. 
OUT BUILDINGS— 

County Board to provide 5 

Teacher to care for i' 

Under immediate supervision of Supervisor. . 2 

Penalty for defacing with obscene thing 

Penalty for injuring or destroying 

:e. 

PATRONS. 

May recommend Supervisor (See also 29, page 

86) 3 40 16 

May require High Schools established 5 40 17 

Not authorized to employ teachers (See also 8, 
page82.) G 40 IT 

PENALTY— For mixing whites and negroes in 

schools 12 lO' 

For not complying with poll tax act (See Sec. 

102) 25 40 20 

For a County Superintendent to fail to take 

census, 16 

For cheating in teachers' examinations 

For a Trustee to fail to do his duty 

For a Clerk to fail to publish tax statements. . 
For a Collector to buy or discount warrants, 

etc 

For insulting teacher in presence of pupils . . . 

For interrupting or disturbing a school 

For introducing obscene prints, etc., inio a 

school 123 42 

For defacing any school property witli obscene 

thing 124 42 

For destroying school house or property 125 43^^ 

For school officer or teacher dealing in, or 

having pecuniary interest in adopting text 

books 126 43 

For any Superintendent violating examination 

iaws 

For failing to publish financial statements. . . 

PETITION— For district election, who eligible to 

sign 

Must prescribe boundaries and be published. . 



48 


23 


52 


24 


92 


33 


107 


39 


110 


39- 


121 


42 


122 


42 



128 


43 


129 


43 


84 


30 


85 


31 



146 INDEX. 

Piir. Sec. Pge. 

PHYSIOLOGY— 

Teaching of, required in every school 14 40 18 

Teachers examined upon B3 36 

POLL taxes- 
Go to county school fund 9 6 

Collector's books relating to, to be examined. '35 40 20 

Real and personal property liable for 101 36 

Lists of persons paying to be made and filed . . 102 38 
Certified copy of lists to be sent State Supt. .. 103 37 
To be itemized separately in published state- 
ments 107 39 

PROPERTY, PERSONAL AND REAL— 

County Board may acquire and hold 34 15 

Complete record of all to be Irept 8 40 17 

Responsibility of for taxes 101 36 

PUNISHMENT— 

Of pupils, not to be too severe or degrading. . 4 73 28 

Corporal, not absclutely prohibited 32 86 

PUPILS— 

Grading of, County Board to look after 5 40 17 

Progress of, County Supt to examine into 2 48 33 

Duties of teacher toward 1-2 73 38 

To be governed on school ground, etc 4 73 28 

May be suspended 5 73 38 

When may attend a special tax school in an- 
other county 98 35 

When may attend a special tax school in an- 

otherdistrict 98 35 

Wheu may attend school in adjoining county 118 41 

Non-resident, tuition may be required of 15 83 

Must attend their own district school 18 84 

See also. Attendance. 

^QUALIFICATIONS— 

Of Officers— See Officers. Op Teachers— See Teachers. 
QUALIFIED ELECTORS— 

Who are, for school district elections , , , 87 33 

May petition for election, and what determif^e 84 30 



INDEX. 147 

Par. Sec. Pgc, 

Majority of votes cast of, determine; any 
special tax school district question 87 33 

<iUESTIONS AND APPEALS -Wee Appeals. 

QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATIONS— 

State Supt. to prepare (see also, Sec. 5i) 10 33 15 

Sent County Supt. under seal 53 20 

QUORUM— What shall constitute 7 9 

JEl. 

REAL ESTATE— 

Responsible for tax on personal property 101 36 

Responsible for poll taxes 101 36 

RECEIPTS— To be taken by a retiring officer 10 10 

None to be yiven for property tax till poll 

is paid 100 36 

For amount of poll taxes paid vvith list of 

payers, to be tiled monthly 103 35 

Of^Count}' Treasurer, shall state amount of 

each. fund 105 37 

RECORDS— County Board must keep 8 40 17 

Of Collectors relating to poll taxes, to be ex- 
amined 35 40 30 

See also 103 36 

County Supt. must keep 15 48 33 

Of lists ofipoll tax payers, to be preserved 15 48 33 

REGISTERS— Mode of keeping, to be examined by 

County Supt 3 48 33 

Teacher must use prescribed :..... 3 81 

Report of teachers to be made in conformity 

with directions given in 6 83 

Teacher to procure before beginning school .. 31 65 

To be filed with County Supt. (see cover of 
Register) 

REGULATIONS OF THE DEFT. OF PUBLIC I iSTSTRUCTlON- 

School officers to conform to 3 9 

State Supt. authorized to prescribe 7 33 15 

See Regulations Nos. 1-35 81-87 

HEMOVAL— Constitutional authority for 3 5 

Causes for, by State Board 4 15 11 

10 



148 Index. 



Par. 



Sec. Fge. 


15 


11 


40 


17 


75 


29 


27 


7 


40 


17 


48 


23 


77 


29 


95 


34 


131 


44 


135 


45 


21 


84 



RENT— Rental of schoollands, fixed by State Board 1 
Renting of school property duty of County • 

Board 5 

Rental of school buildings, etc., by Supervisor 2 
REPORTS— To be made by State Supt. (See also 

Par. 12th, Sec. 33) 

To be made by County Board 8 

Of census, must be certified 16 

To State Department, limitations upon 

Of Teachers of special tax schools, to be ap- 
proved by Trustees 

Board of visitors of Seminaries to make .... 
To State Supt. by Trustees Agricultural Col- 
lege 

Of County Supt. to State Supt., when due.... 

REQUISITION- -Teacher fund of special tax district 

not subject to for other purposes 96 35 

When made upon one County Treasurer to 

another 118 41 

RULES AND REGULATIONS— 

Students in Military Institute subject to 22 12 

Persistent Tiolation of, cause for suspending a 

pupil • • 5 

Special tax schools, subject to same, exception 
Of County Boards, have force of law 

s. 

SCHOOLS - 

Establishment and maintenance of 1 9 

Under general management of State Superin- 
tendent 33 14 

Under special management of County Superin- 
tendent 

Under control of County Board . . 

Under oversight of Supervisor 1 

Located and maintained by County Board. ... 2 

Minimum annual term 2 

Not to be located nearer than three miles 6 

Record of condition of. County Board to keep 8 

To have graded properly 14 

Time of opening fixed by County Board with- 
in limits (See also Sees. 78 and 79) 21 40 19 



73 


28 


93 


33 


2 


81 



28 


85 


28 


85 


75 


29 


40 


16 


40 


16 


40 


17 


40 


17 


40 


18 



IXDEX. 149 

For locating, county to be inspected by Com ty 

Superintendent 1 48 21 

To be visited once a terra by County Superin- 
tendent 2 48 23 

Record of each to be kept by County Superin- 
tendent 6 48 22 

No one without certificate, can teach in 58 28 

Penalty for disturbing 122 42 

Penalty for introducting obscene prints into.. 123 42 

SCHOOL AGE— Defined. See also Par. 2, Sec. 40. 19 

SCHOOL BOA.RD— See Board op Public Instbuction. 

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT— 

By whom county to be divided into three. ... 23 
Not to divide election districts in forming. . . . 

May be changed, when and by whom 

A member of County Board elected from each 

SCHOOL BOOKS— County uniform system of, to be 

put in use 11 

Adoj)tion of^ to be g>-adaal, when completed. 11 
County Board, consulting others, to adopt.... 12 
Before adoption, 60 days notice to be given. .. 12 

Term of adoption 12 

Use of others by teachers, prohibited 12 

County Superintendent to see books adopted 

used 12 

Condition of. County Superintendent to exam- 
ine once a school term 2 

School officers and teachers to have no pecuni- 
ary interest in sale or adoption of 

Penalty for violation 

SCHOOL BUILDINCS— See Buildings. 

SCHOOL CENSUS— See Census. 

SCHOOL DAY— Fixed by County Board, within 

limits (See Sec. 80) 21 40 19 

Number in a school month 2 80 30 

SCHOOL DISTRICT— See District. 

SCHOOL EXAMINATION— Teacher must hold at 

close of term 6 73 29 

SCHOOL FUNDS— See Funds; also Moneys. 

SCHOOL FURNITURE— See Furniture. 



40 


20 


42 


20 


42 


20 


43 


20 


40 


18 


40 


18 


40 


18 


40 


18 


40 


18 


40 


18 


40 


18 


48 


22 


126 


43 


127 


43 



40 


17 


73 


28 


73 


38 



150 INDEX. 

Par. Sec. Pge. 
SCHOOLfGROUNDS— Bee Grounds. 
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS— See Holidays. 

SCHOOL HOUSE— County Board to provide for 

warming, etc 5 

Care of by teacher 3 

Authority of teacher in or near 4 

See Buildings. 
SCHOOL LANDS— See Lakds. 

SCHOOL LAWS— To be printed and distributed 

by State Superintendent .• ■ 1 33 14 

Copy of, County Superintendent to furnish 

Supervisor 4 48 22 

Copy of, Supervisor to procure for teacher. ... 2 75 29 

See Laws; also Appendix. • 

SCHOOL LEVY— See Tax. 

SCHOOL LIBRARIES— See Libraries. 

SCHOOL MONTH— Defined— twenty school days. . 2 
Report of teacher for 

SCHOOL PROPERTY— Titles to, to be vested in 

County Board 

Duty of County Board to obtain titles 1 

Special Tax School Districts may own 1 

When to be delivered by teachers with keys. . 7 

SCHOOL SITE— County Board to select, require- 
ments in 4 

To do whatever necessary in providing 5 

Board may obtain of a member 

SCHOOL SUB-DISTRICT— See Special Tax 
School District. 

SCHOOL SUPERVISOR— See Supervisor. 

SCHOOL TEACHER— See Teacher. 

SCHOOL TERM— Defined— four school months ... 3 

Minimum term of school allowable 2 

At close of each, a pubUc examination. ..... 6 

SCHOOL TRUSTEES— See Trustees. 

SCHOOL YEAR— Defined, as to limits 77 29 

Defined, as to length — two terms 4 80 30 



80 


30 


26 


85 


36 


16 


40 


16 


40 


16 


73 


29 


40 


16 


40 


17 


41 


20 



80 


30 


40 


19 


73 


29 



VM) 


u 


:y.', 


15 


vn 


44: 



INDEX. ' IM 

Par. Sec. Pge. 

SEAL— State Supt. to have, purposes of 8 ?>■] 15 

Exan illation seal, when and in whose presence 
may be broken ... .").> 2i 

SEMINARIES— Beneficiaries of 

State Supt. to visit and reoort 1',' 

Visitors to report to State Supt 

SITE— See School Sitk. 

SOUrri FLORIDA MILILARY INSTITUTE- 

See Military Institute. 

SPE lAL EXAMINATION— 

Who authorized to hold, and when 12 48 2:^ 

SPECIAL TAX— Constitutional one mill levy G (5 

To be apportioned annually 7 7 

By whom apportioned, and the basis 4 33 14 

SPE' lAL TAX SCBOOLS— 



Constitutional provision for 

Defined 

Subject to same control as other schools 

SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICTS- 

Constitutional provision for 

Defined 

May acquire and hold school property 1 

Shall receive just portion of county fund 1 

Created by petition and election (Sec. 84) 22 

Boundaries m petition, subject to change. . . . 

Once established are permanent, until 

Majority of votes cast necessary to carry 

Election^to be held in, what to determine 

Form of ballot in 91 33 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION— 

Constitution for. and personnel 

President and Secretary of 

Powers and duties of 

To manage school lands 

To manage all educational funds of the State 
To entertain and decide questions and appeals 

To remove subordinates for cause 

To foster higher education 

To co-operat« with State Supt 6 15 15 



10 


() 


S3 


30 


03 


3:? 


10 


6 


83 


30 


40 


10 


40 


K) 


40 


20 


85 


31 


85 


31 


87 


33 


90 


33 





3 


K 




15 






15 




1 


15 




2 


15 




3 


15 




4 


15 




5 


15 





152 i\i)Ex. 

Par. Sec. Pge . 

To invest permanent school fund 16 11 

To fill vacancies in School Boards. 17 13 

To direct and control the Normal Schools 18 12 

* To manage South Florida Military Institute... 20 12 
To manage Institute for Blind, Deaf and 

Dumb 24 13 

STATE CERTIFICATE— 

By'whom issued, and prerequisites 65 27 

Scholarship requirements..... 65 27 

Endorsement for exaniinttion required 33 86 

Form of application for examination, No. 14. 98 

Form of Certificate, No. 19 102 

See also Certificate. 

STATE SCHOOL FUND— See Funds; also Moneys, 

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Secretary and member of State Board 3 5 

Constitutional powers and duties of 25 7 

Given general oversight of school affairs .... 32 14 

Special duties 33 14 

Topublish and distribute laws, forms, etc., etc. 1 33 14 

To call conventions of school officers 2 33 14 

To hold Teachers' Institutes 3 33 14 

To apportion school funds 4 33 14 

To make discretionary apportionments 5 33 14 

To entertain and decide, or refer appeals , 6 33 14 

To prescribe Rules and Regulations 7 33 15 

To have a seal of office, purpose of S 33 15 

Residence and office of . . 9 33 15 

To prepare questions for county examinations 

, (see also, Sec. 52)... 10 33 15 

Authority of , relative to examinations 51 34 

To hold examinations for State Certificates 10 33 15 

To grant Life Certificates 10 33 15 

To nominate to fill facancies on School Boards 11 33 15 

To visit Seminaries and report .'. 13 33 15 

To keep record of persons who have paid poll 

taxes 13 33 15 

STATE TREASURER— See Treasurer. 

SUB-DISTRICTS— See Special Tax School Dis- 
tricts, 



INDEX. 153 

Pa r. Sec. Pge 

SUCCESSORS— To be delivered school effecte, a-id 

to give receipts 10 10 

SUPERVISOR— An ofticer of the Department 

Appointed by County Board 8 

To supervise the school and report to County 
Superintendent monthly 3 

Efficiency of, to be examined into once a term 
by County Superintendent 2 

To awaken increased interest in, County Su- 
perintendent to do all in his power 3 

To be conferred with by County Superintend- 
ent, who is to see that he attends to his du- 
ties 4 

To be kept supplied with school laws, etc., by 
Count}^ Superintendent 4 

Persons fitted for the duties of, to be selected 
by County Superintendent 5 

To be notified by teacher of suspension of pu- 
pil 5 

When teacher is to deliver to, keys and all 
school property 7 

To supervise the school and report monthly to 
County Board 1 

To supervise the property and procure copy 
of school laws 2 

To attend and co-operate with teacher in ele- 
vating the school 3 

To review suspensions of pupils and report the 
same promptly to County Superintenc.ent. . 8 

The duties of, when to be performed by Trus- 
tees 

To select and contract with teacher, not to be 
delegated to 

May suggest a teacher satisfactory to patrons 

Subject to direction of County Board 

A position of oversight, not of control 

Form of Recommendation of. No. 7 

Form of Appointment, No. 8 ....... 

Form of Acceptance of Appointment, No. 9. . 96 

See also Regulations, Nos. 17 and 29 84-86 

SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION- 

Duty of. relative to school districts. .. . .... 88 33 



2 


&■ 


40 


16 


40^' 


'16 


48 


.22 


48 


23 


48 


23 


48,. 


_22 


48 


22 


73 


28 


73 


29 


75 


29 


75 


29 


75 


29 


75 


29 


76 


29 


8 


82 


8 


82 


27 


85 


28 


85 




95 




95 



154 



Par. 
T. 

TAX, CAPITATION— 

CoDstihition provision for 

Amount and application , .. 

Both real and personal property liable for. . . . 
Certified lists of persons pajdng, to be filed. . . . 
Lists to be pa'eserved by State Superintend- 
ent 

TAX, COUNTY SCHOOL— 

Not less than three nor more than five niilU, . . 

Millage to be estimated by County Board . 18 

County Commissioners to levy 

Orders of (.ounty Board receivable for, 

TAX, DISTRICT SCHOOL— 

Constitutional provisions — maximum 3 mills. 

The levy and millage decided by election 

Vote required to determine 

Qualifications of electors for 

Trustees to file estimate and certify millage. . 

County Commissioners to order 

Duties of Comptroller concerning. 

County Treasurer to hold and pay out. . .... 

TAX, SPECIAL [STATE]— 

Constitutional levy of one mill 

Apportioned among the counties, basis 4 

TAX COLLECTOR— 

To pay County Treasurer monthly 18 

Poll tax records of, County Board to examine 25 

Penalty for neglect about poll taxes .... 25 

To pay dii-trict tax to County Treasurer 

Not receipt for other tax till poll is paid 

To file monthly certified list of poll tax payers 
with the County Board 

To file copy of the above with receipt of 
Treasurer M^ith County Commissioners 

Penalty for failure 

To file receipts of Treasurer with County 
Clerk 

Not deal in State, county, or district securi- 
ties 

Penaltyjfor'violatior 



«Sec. Pye^ 



9 6 

100 36 

101 36 

102 36 

103 37 



40 


19 


108 


39 


109 


39 


10 


6 


84 


30 


84 


30 


87 


30 


95 


84 


95 


34- 


95 


34 


95 


34 


6 


6 


33 


14 


40 


19' 


40 


20' 


40 


20 


95 


34 


100 


36 



102 36 

102 36 

102 36 

105 37 

110 39^ 

110 3: 



, INDKX. 155 

l\ir. :Sec. Pge. 
TEACHERS— To be nssenibled in Institutes by State 

Supt 3 33 14 

County Board to employ, contract with and 

pay 40 17 

Leading ones, to be consulted in book adop- 
tions 12 

Prominent ones, to assist with course of study 14 

Who to be appointed on grading committee. . 

To be told cause of revoked certificate and 
right of appeal 13 

Required to obtain certificate in this State. . . 

Primary duty of 

General duties of 

When exempt from military and jury duty. . 

Concerning contract and compensation 

Supervisor and patrons may not employ 

When and how County Boards are to assign. . 

Favoritism to be avoided 

Duties concerning Arbor Day 

Limitation as to term of contract 

How to report holidays 

May use corporal punishment 

Duty to advance grade of certificate 

Not to deal in, or influence adoption of school 
books for a consideration 

Penalty for violation 

Penalty for insult to 

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES— See Certificates. 

TEACHERS' INSTITUTE— 

State Supt. to hold and provide instruction. . 3 33 14 

County Board to apply certain fund to ST L'6 

TEACHING—Candidates for, County Supt. to ex- 
amine and certiticate 11 48 22 

TEMPORARY CFRTIFICATES— 

Term of, and proviso pertaining 12 48 23 

TERM— See School Term. 

TERMS OF OFFICE-Of State Supt 2 5 

Maxmium, of all officers 

Of member of County Board 

Of School Tru-t-es 



40 


18 


40 


18 


5.-) 


25 


48 


23 


58 


26 


:^1 


86 


73 


2S 


74 


29 


i 


82 


8 


82 


9 


. 82 


10 


88- 


14 


83 


19 


84 


26 


85 


32 


86 


B5 


86 


126 


43 


127 


43 


121 


42 



4 


9 


43 


21 


84 


31 



TEXT BOOKS-See School Books. 



15(j 



TREASURER, COUNTY- 



Par. Sec. Pge. 



2 


9 


39 


16 


40 


17 


95 


34 


105 


37 


112 


40 


113 


40 


115 


40 


129 


44 



An officer of the Department 

Treasurer of county school funds 

To certifj^ financial statements of County 

Board 9 

Liable on bond for district funds 

In receipting Collector, to specify each fund 

and amount. 

All county school funds go to 

To file monthly report with County Supt 

To keep description of warrants and pay in 

order 

Penalty for failure to make reports 

TREASURER, STATE— 

Member of and Treasurer of State Board.... 14 11 

To keep an account with counties Ill 40 

All State school funds go to 112 40 

TRUSTEES OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— 

To make annual report to State Supt 135 45 

TRUSTEES, SCHOOL— 

Constitutional provision for 

Election of 

Term of oflfi ce 

Jurisdiction, duties and powers of 

Subject to removal 

May nominate teachers, proviso, 

Shall apportion district fund 

To file itemized estimate and certify millage. 

To file copies of above, with whom 

Certain fund not subject to requisition of , . . . 

May not contract with a member 

To be a corporation, etc. 

Make no debt without approval of County 

Board 97 35 

When and how may admit non-residents of 

the district to their school. 98 35 

To audit commissions of Collector 99 36 



10 


6 


84 


30 


84 


30 


92 


33 


92 


33 


93 


33 


94 


34 


95 


34 


95 


34 


96 


35 


96 


35 


97 


35 



INDEX. l''^7 

P(ir. Sec. r.je. 
'ST. 

\\VCANCIES— 

How filled on (Jouuty Boards 45 31 

In Boards of Trustees, how filled 93 8:5 

In teacliers, when County Superintendent 

may fill ~"> ^^ 

VISITORS— See Seminaries. 

VOTERS— See Electors. 

* -□•. • 

UNIFORM SYSTEM- 

Of public free schools demanded 1 5 

Of publicjinstruction established 1 9 

Of school books to be used in each county 11 . 40 18 

UNIT, SCHOOL— Defined 8 10 

WARRANTS— 

When to be described minutel}'' 10 40 17 

County Board to issue monthly 5 8"3 

Not to be issued teacher till report is filed and 

properly made 6 ^'^ 

Form of, No. 29 lit 

IT 

YEAR— See School Year. 



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